Common Challenges and Cooperation Regime among the Persian Gulf Nations

The Persian Gulf has long been Iran’s sphere of hegemony. World political and industrial developments within the past century, however, have also transformed regional equations, turning the region from a forum for securing our strategic interests into a hotspot of challenges. Security, energy and even identity differences as hard issues have made interaction more difficult, leading to divergence among neighboring countries. In the meantime, the role the transregional powers played in accusing Iran with seeking hegemony and securitizing the atmosphere has been particularly important. The author has mixed the regimes theory and functionalism in order to address this issue. He concludes that after examining commercial and biological challenges (as soft grounds) found in the Persian Gulf region, there is high possibility of forging a ground for dialogue, cooperation and providing security. Although one of the main factors in forging a cooperation regime includes regional and global great powers, which do not agree to this, since Iran will have the upper hand in every organization in the Persian Gulf region.