The Military Alliance of The United Arab Emirates: Threats and Opportunities

The objective of the study was to analyze the current state of military alliances of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). For the said purpose, ‎military alliance including alliance in terms of governance, economics, political stability, and regional stability of UAE has been analyzed. ‎Additionally, the types of military alliances being made by the country are evaluated followed by the threats mainly internal and external to ‎the military alliance are analyzed. Afterwards, the role of strength of strategic alliance for getting maximum benefits from the military alliance ‎have been evaluated. Finally, the two theories, balance of threat to cater internal and external threats and theory of alliance formation and ‎cohesion to cater strength of alliance have been analyzed to develop a final framework for the study. Finally, the qualitative methodology has ‎been proposed with convenience and snowball sampling. The conclusions highlighted the need for empirical testing of the framework ‎qualitative data.