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Sustainable prosperity in the Arab Gulf : from miracle to method
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ISBN: 1003373356 1003373356 1000921727 Year: 2023 Publisher: Abingdon, England : Routledge,

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"Tracing the development journey of the Arabian Gulf region with a forward-looking perspective, this book describes how a combination of good fortune, creative experimentation, and determination has enabled the region to achieve prosperity. Today, the Arabian Gulf is well positioned to assume a pivotal role in the new global order. Forced to balance an extreme climate and acute resource constraints, but also an exceptional location, the region's progress and prosperity has historically been precarious and vulnerable to external shocks. Efforts to transcend resource dependency have typically involved proactive attempts to proactively enable other economic activities. This book argues that, while conventional economic diversification is making headway, the Gulf region is in fact amidst a far more holistic transformation that positions it for a pivotal role in the emerging multi-polar global order. It now offers globally competitive regulations and world-class infrastructure at the heart of the Old World, flanked by two fast-growing continents. It has become the hub of choice for a growing share of inter-continental flows of people, trade, and capital, and has established strong economic ties in all directions. This book shows how, despite many risks and challenges, the region possesses the forward-looking vision and necessary resilience that can finally liberate it from its long-standing "resource curse", and a development paradigm that looks likely to provide the foundation for sustained well-being in the decades ahead. The scope and rigor of the book make it suitable as a reference on the Arabian Gulf and for those interested in global affairs and economic development, as well as policy makers and the business community"--


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The future of economic development in the Gulf Cooperation Council states : evidence-based policy analysis
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ISBN: 1003288286 100061851X 1003288286 1000618552 Year: 2023 Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York, New York : Routledge,

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"The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries own 30 percent of the world's proven oil reserves and largely depend on oil for their income. Yet, the GCC faces serious challenges. The global demand for oil is expected to continue declining and the average long-run oil price could become lower than its historical average in the future. This book is a research-based, structural macroeconomic analysis, providing evidence-based and future-facing, policy recommendations for GCC governments. First, it analyzes historical data to explain the macroeconomic performance and economic policies of the GCC countries from 1970 to 2019. Then it presents ten-year dynamic stochastic projections from 2020 to 2030. The book examines debt sustainability and optimal fiscal policies, i.e., government spending and taxation. It also analyses structural issues such as savings and productivity, and from an institutional perspective, taking into account education, the labor market, and pension funds, as well as other factors that have a close effect on economic performance. The book is comprehensive and thorough, it relies on extensive econometric analyses, including rigorous time series analysis. The author uses both calibration of theoretical models and estimation, facilitating projections for the next decade of key economic variables under different policy scenarios. The book also assesses what the future of the GCC economies will look like if climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic continue to, adversely, affect oil supply and demand, and the price of oil, given their current policies and institutions. As well as scholars and researchers of economics and finance, the book will engage policymakers in central banks, treasury departments, planning councils, research institutes and think tanks"--


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Tribalism and political power in the Gulf : state-building and national identity in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE
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ISBN: 9780755644896 9781838606084 1838606084 Year: 2023 Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris,

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Gulf societies are often described as being intensely tribal. However, in discussions of state building and national identity, the role of tribalism and tribal identity is often overlooked. This book analyses the political role of tribes in Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE aiming to understand the degree to which tribes hinder or advance popular participation in government and to what extent they exert domestic political power.The research traces the historical relationship between ruling elites and nomadic tribes, and, by constructing political histories of these states and analysing the role of tribes in domestic political life and social hierarchies, reveals how they serve as major political actors in the Gulf.A key focus of the book is understanding the extent to which societies in the Gulf have become 're-bedouinised' in the modern era and how this has shaped these states' political processes and institutions. The book explores the roles that tribes play in the development of “progressive” citizenship regimes and policymaking today, and how they are likely to be influential in the future within rentier environments.


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Transnational Generations in the Arab Gulf States and Beyond
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ISBN: 9819951836 Year: 2023 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.,

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Creative insecurity : institutional inertia and youth potential in the GCC
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ISBN: 0197766749 0197770975 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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The Middle East is experiencing the world's most prominent youth bulge. Yet many MENA economies' institutional designs, both formal and informal, favour the power of business elites, systematically discriminating against young people joining the workforce or opening businesses, and thus limiting their ability to contribute to innovation. Large youth populations can be a boon or a curse: nurtured and integrated, they can jumpstart stratospheric growth; but if alienated and confined, they can drain a society politically and economically. The Gulf Cooperation Council countries are no exception to this perilous dilemma. This book explores the problem through a new concept, 'creative insecurity': a state's subjection to an institutional ecosystem that is suppressing opportunities for innovation - to the extent that it is causing economic and political vulnerabilities, which in turn threaten national security.


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Indian migration to the Gulf : emerging challenges and prospects
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ISBN: 1003369375 1003369375 1000850056 Year: 2023 Publisher: Abingdon, England : Routledge,

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This book explores issues of rights, issues and challenges faced by Indian migrant workers in GCC countries.


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India and the Gulf : theoretical perspectives and policy shifts
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ISBN: 1009310860 1009310844 1009321757 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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"India's foreign policy in the Gulf has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. From the oil boom of the 1970s to Narendra Modi's aggressive regional outreach after 2014, the density of India's interactions with the region in the form of migration, financial remittances, and trade has grown by multiple orders of magnitude. India has reconfigured its diplomatic and strategic ties with the Gulf states accordingly. This volume examines the subject from a variety of theoretical lenses and methodological approaches. It treads a range of traditional and emergent themes in India's foreign policy in the Gulf region, including India's alignment choices, its strategic partnerships in the region, the paradiplomacy of Indian states in the region, and the competing political projects shaping India's outlook on the Gulf"--


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The Medieval Persian Gulf
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ISBN: 1802701516 1802701524 1802702717 Year: 2023 Publisher: Yorkshire : London : Arc Humanities Press, Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),

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The Persian Gulf today is home to multiple cosmopolitan urban hubs of globalization. This did not start with the discovery of oil. This book tells of the Gulf from the rise of Islam until the coming of the Portuguese, when port cities such as Siraf, Sohar, and Hormuz were entrepots for trading pearls, horses, spices, and other products across much of Asia and eastern Africa. Indeed, products traded there became a key part of the material culture of medieval Islamic civilization, and the Gulf region itself was a crucial membrane between the Middle East and the world of the broader Indian Ocean. The book also highlights the long-term presence of communities of South Asian and African ancestry, as well as patterns of religious change among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims that belie the image of a region long polarized between Arabs and Persians and Sunnis and Shi'ites.


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Trade and seafaring in antiquity : Red Sea - Persian Gulf - Indian Ocean : proceedings of the 1st Muziris workshop, Trier, 28th May 2021
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ISBN: 9783963272301 3963272309 Year: 2023 Publisher: Münster : Zaphon,


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Deploying feminism : the role of gender in NATO military operations
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ISBN: 0197653537 0197653553 0197653529 9780197653524 0197653545 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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In Deploying Feminism, Stéfanie von Hlatky tells the story of how the military has been delegated authority to advance gender equality as part of their activities, while simultaneously tackling increasingly complex threats. Drawing upon fieldwork and interviews, von Hlatky argues that there is a distortion of Women, Peace and Security norms, as gender equality concerns fade into the background. Looking at NATO's ongoing operations in Iraq, Kosovo, and the Baltics, she details the process by which Women, Peace and Security norms are militarized and put at the service of operational effectiveness. Further, it shows why an adjustment is necessary for gender equality to become a true planning priority.

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