Jordan's new Geopolitics

Survival

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 15-26

  Samaan, Jean Loup ^a,b  

^a NATO Defense College   (Italy)

^b LRBA (French Ministry of Defence)   (France)

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EID: 84859208134     PISSN: 00396338     EISSN: 14682699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00396338.2012.672700     Document Type: Article

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2. Taylor Luck, 'Jordanian Protesters Call for End of Security Services' Hold on Public Life', Jordan Times, 6 November 2011.
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11. Zahran, 'Jordan is Palestinian', p. 9.
12. Speech from the Throne by His Majesty King Abdullah II, Opening the Second Ordinary Session of the 16th Parliament, Amman, 26 October 2011.
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14. See, for example, Terrill, Global Security Watch - Jordan, p. 68.
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19. King Abdullah II, 'Iraq is the Battleground', p. 76.
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21. Interviews with Jordanian diplomats and military officers, Amman, December 2011.
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24. Nicolas Pelham, 'Jordan Starts to Shake', New York Review of Books, 8 December 2011.
25. French expert Fatiha Dazi-Heni has stated that up to 800 Jordanians in Bahraini uniform were sent to Manama.
26. see Fatiha Dazi-Heni, 'Le Conseil de Coopération du Golfe: Une coopération de sécurité et de défense renforcée?', p. 2, in Laurence Louër (ed.), Les monarchies du Golfe face au printemps arabe, Les dossiers du CERI, September 2011, http://www.ceri-sciences-po.org/archive/2011/septembre/dossier/art_fdh.pdf.
27. Bassam al Baddarin, 'Saudi Talks Indicate Lack of Enthusiasm for Jordan Joining Gulf Bloc', Al Quds, 16 November 2011.
28. Mohammed El-Katiri, 'The Gulf Cooperation Council Enlargement: Geopolitics Reconsidered', Notes Internacionals, CIDOB, June 2011, p. 3.
29. Interviews with Jordan defence analysts, Amman, December 2011.
30. Nasser Judeh, 'Middle East Peace: Future Horizons', The Jordanian Diplomat, vol. 4, no. 1, December 2010, p. 10.
31. Sharp, Jordan: Background and U.S. Relations, p. 23.