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This article seeks to analyze Persian Gulf Politics through an assumption of mutual interaction among the regional actors that leads to the securitization politics in the region. In this article, which initially aims to analyze Persian Gulf policy using an alternative perspective, the main arguments of the Copenhagen School were applied by employing Securitization Theory. This article discusses that politics in the Persian Gulf is shaped by the unique dynamics of the region. At this point, securitization actors in the region use a rhetoric of existential threat and thereby take an issue out of what under those conditions is ‘normal politics’. Once they win the assent of the audience they get the authority to handle the issue to use whatever means they deem most appropriate. Therefore, the concept of military security, which has risen heavily in the aftermath of 2003 Iraqi War, is a result of a successful securitization policy of the regional states. Given the influence of 2003 Iraqi War on the foreign policies of the actors in the Persian Gulf, this article focuses on the post-war period. On the other hand, this article does not predominantly narrate the Iraqi War. The 2003 Iraqi War is assumed to just provide a reference for the comprehension of the regional politics.

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