نیروهای مسلح امارات متحده عربی در روند ایجاد اتحادیه: در جستجوی مشغولیتی جاه طلبانه

نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی- پژوهشی مستقل

نویسنده

تحلیلگر مسایل خلیج فارس

چکیده

این مقاله تحقیقی به مطالعه روابط پیچیده امارات متحده عربی‌ و نیروهای مسلح آنها می‌پردازد. در حالیکه در دهه هفتاد میلادی مراحل دولت‌سازی برای ساخت یک نیروی مسلح بیشتر بر شیوه اجاره‌ای استوار بود، امروزه تلاش برای ایجاد یک فدراسیون بر شیوه مدرن الحاق هفت نیروی مسلح استوار است. از منظر داخلی، این استراتژی، ابوظبی را به یک سیستم نوین برتری پدرسالارانه بر سیستم نظامی تجهیز کرده است. نیروهای مسلح هم چنین نقشی مدور در روابط خارجی امارات متحده عربی ایفا می‌کنند که از "مداخله با اراده" از طریق هزینه دفاعی، همکاری امنیتی با قدرت‌های غربی و ناتو و حضور نظامی در خاورمیانه سرچشمه می‌گیرد. علاوه بر این نیروهای امارات متحده و عرصه داخلی رابطه‌ای دایره مانند دارند و این از زمانی آغاز شده که خلبانان و سربازان به دلیل تعهدشان در خارج به تدریج به نماد شناخت(فهم) فدرال امارات متحده عربی تبدیل شده‌اند که این خود هویت  جمعی را تقویت کرده و در نتیجه وزن سیاسی ابوظبی را در شورای همکاری خلیج فارس افزایش داده است. این مقاله، از طریق تحلیل کیفی، نقش و تحول نیروهای مسلح امارات متحده عربی را در چارچوب پیچیده رئالیسم به چالش می‌کشد.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

United Arab Emirates’ Armed Forces in the Federation-Building Process: Seeking for Ambitious Engagement

نویسنده [English]

  • Ardemagni Ardemagni
Persian Gulf analyst, Nato Defense College Foundation, Aspen Institute Italy.
چکیده [English]

 
This research paper investigates the complex relation between United Arab Emirates (UAE) and their armed forces. While in the Seventies the process of state-making was primarily rent-driven, deeper federation-building efforts has now been focusing on modern integration among the seven armed forces. From a domestic perspective, this strategy has enhanced Abu Dhabi’s neo-patrimonial supremacy on the military system. Armed forces play also a crescent role in the new UAE foreign policy, oriented towards "ambitious engagement" through defense expenditure, cooperative security with Western powers and Nato, regional military assertiveness in the Middle East. Moreover, UAE armed forces and the domestic arena have a circular relation, since pilots and soldiers, due to their commitment abroad, have been gradually becoming vectors for UAE federal consciousness, fostering collective identity and so contributing to enhance Abu Dhabi’s political weight within Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Through qualitative analysis, this paper problematizes the role and evolution of UAE armed forces, in a framework of complex realism.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • United Arab Emirates
  • armed forces
  • foreign policy
  • neo-patrimonialism
  • Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

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