تاريخ التنافس الأوربي في الخليج العربي و المحيط الهندي : الإستراتيجية البحرية الفرنسية في القرنين السابع عشر و الثامن عشر نموذجا

Abstract EN

In this research, we will review the beginnings of European competition, ever since the Arabian Gulf acquired an important status as a result of Europe's awareness of the benefits of the Silk Road and the arrival of the Portuguese and French forces to the Arabian Gulf and the Indian Ocean in the 17th and 18th centuries.

We will also sketch the features of the French strategy and its endeavor to extend its influence as planned by its rulers.

To this are added the policies of rapprochement and alliance with the local forces in the region.

We will trace the features of the French naval movements and the degree of their success and failure to impose their hegemony on overseas countries, especially Napoleon Bonaparte, who drew the first plan to reach the Gulf waters through the alliance with the Sultans of Oman, Sultan bin Ahmed bin Said.

It was the first plan developed by the Europeans for the new alliance with Oman instead of the Safavid entity through trade, piracy and political treaties.