The Gulf and the Struggle for Hegemony: Arabs, Iranians, and the West in ConflictDr. Roby C. Barrett's The Gulf and the Struggle for Hegemony is the result of four decades of academic, government, and business experience in the affairs of the Gulf. The work describes the political development of the region, both in terms of the individual states Saudi Arabia, the Gulf Emirates, Oman, Iran, Yemen, and Iraq Syria and their complicated inter connected histories. The work introduces the concept of the Gulf Security System in regional