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According to Daniel Kurtzer and Maira Seeley, collective security arrangements in the Middle East have proven elusive. In the Gulf, Russia, Iran and the US have proposed competing mechanisms to foster cooperation, but these proposals have foundered, with the prospect of progress towards Gulf security cooperation continuing to remain unlikely unless Saudi-Iranian tensions decrease. To address this, Kurtzer and Seeley recommend that US efforts to support regional security cooperation should focus on strengthening defense and political relationships within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).