Book Description
In an era marked by unprecedented global military spending of $2.718 trillion in 2024 and escalating regional conflicts, the dream of a unified Islamic military alliance has resurfaced with renewed urgency. Following the September 2025 emergency summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Doha-convened in response to alleged Israeli strikes on Qatari territory-leaders from Iran, Egypt, and Pakistan have issued fresh calls for an "Islamic NATO" to protect Muslim nations from external aggression.
NATO-like Alliance Among Muslim Nations: Possibilities and Hurdles provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of efforts to forge collective defense mechanisms among the world's 1.8 billion Muslims across 57 OIC member states. Dr. Naim Tahir Baig traces the evolution of these aspirations from the 1950 Arab Collective Security Pact through the modern Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC)-which now encompasses 43 nations-to examine why repeated attempts at military unity have fallen short of their ambitious goals.
Drawing on primary source documents, declassified treaties, recent diplomatic communications, and extensive field research, this book dissects both the compelling strategic rationale for Islamic military cooperation and the formidable obstacles that have historically prevented its realization. With Middle Eastern defense spending led by Saudi Arabia at $80.3 billion annually and Israel's military expenditure surging to $46.5 billion in 2024, the stakes for regional security have never been higher.
The author's rigorous analysis reveals how sectarian divisions between Sunni and Shia powers, competing national interests, external dependencies on Western military technology, and the absence of shared democratic institutions have repeatedly undermined unity efforts. Yet he also identifies emerging possibilities: from bilateral defense pacts like the recent Saudi-Pakistan agreement to China's growing role as an alternative arms supplier that could reduce Western leverage over Muslim military establishments.
NATO-like Alliance Among Muslim Nations offers essential insights for policymakers, defense analysts, scholars of international relations, and anyone seeking to understand one of the most consequential geopolitical questions of our time: whether the Islamic world can overcome its internal fractures to present a unified front in an increasingly multipolar world order.
Baig, Naim Tahir: -
Dr. Naim Tahir Baig can be described as a Political Analyst, Geopolitical Strategist, Military and Security Studies Expert, Intelligence and Espionage Scholar, Social Commentator, Philosopher of Contemporary Issues, Digital Economy Specialist, Islamic Scholar and Interfaith Commentator, Poet and Literary Author, Regional Studies Expert, Multidisciplinary Intellectual, and Pakistan-Centric Analyst, reflecting his diverse expertise across politics, geopolitics, military strategy, intelligence, social commentary, business, religion, literature, and regional studies.
Published Books of Dr. Naim Tahir Baig
- Learn AI Fast: A Practical Guide for Busy Professionals
- Nuclear Orbits: From Soviet Satellites to Russian Space Power
- Trump vs. Putin: The Secrets Of Alaska Summit 2025
- Nuclear Weapons in Space
- Trump's Siege on the Fed: Politics, Power, and the Fracturing of Global Finance
- The Great Realignment
- The Last Rock's Secret War: Okinotorishima
- The New American Empire In 2025
- Fractured Faith: The Ken Paxton Divorce Scandal and the Crisis of Conservative Authenticity
- The Boomer Blockade: How an Aging Generation is Reshaping Global Power and Economics at Younger Generations' Expense
- Kiss Cam Crisis
- GAZA: The word 'ETHICS' is at stake
- Tarifaço: Trump's Tariff Assault on Brazil and the Battle for Hemispheric Power
- Love Seized
- Why Pakistan Can't Be Ignored ?
- Abandoning UNESCO, Abandoning America's Global Leadership
- Knowledge at the Cost of Drinking Water
- Artificial Intelligence Reshapes Nations' Strategic Cultures
- America Party
- Geopolitical Realignments And U.S. Decline
- Echoes of Love After Life
- After The Break-up
- Mental Health and Digital Wellness: Navigating the Hyper-Connected World
- Shadow War 2025: Israel's Secret Army Inside Iran
- Operation True Promise 3
- 2nd Edition: Operation Rising Lion: Israel's Strike Against Iran's Nuclear Program
- Behind The Veil Of Deception: Catherine Perez-Shakdam
- Operation Rising Lion 2025: Israel's Strike on Iran's Nuclear Program
