TY - BOOK ID - 8211488 TI - The GCC Economies : Stepping Up To Future Challenges PY - 2012 SN - 1461416108 1489997121 9786613697998 1461416116 1280787600 PB - New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Economic policy. KW - Economics. KW - Energy policy -- Persian Gulf States. KW - Gulf Cooperation Council. KW - Persian Gulf States -- Economic policy. KW - Energy policy KW - Business & Economics KW - Management KW - Industrial Management KW - Economic History KW - Economic Theory KW - Corporate governance. KW - Governance, Corporate KW - Energy policy. KW - Energy and state. KW - Economic Policy. KW - Energy Policy, Economics and Management. KW - Industrial management KW - Directors of corporations KW - Economic nationalism KW - Economic planning KW - National planning KW - State planning KW - Economics KW - Planning KW - National security KW - Social policy KW - Energy and state KW - Power resources KW - State and energy KW - Industrial policy KW - Energy conservation KW - Government policy KW - Persian Gulf States KW - Gulf Co-operation Council KW - Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf KW - States of Gulf Co-operation Council KW - Golf-Rat KW - GCC KW - G.C.C. KW - Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī KW - Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī al-ʻArabī KW - GKR KW - Kooperationsrat Arabischer Staaten am Golf KW - Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf KW - Duwal Majlis al-Khalīj KW - Gŏlpʻŭ Hyŏmnyŏk Wiwŏnhoe KW - Kŏlpʻŭ Hyŏmnyŏk Wiwŏnhoe KW - Majlis al-Taʻāwun li-Duwal al-Khalīj al-ʻArabīyah KW - Golfkooperationsrat KW - AGCC KW - A.G.C.C. KW - Duwal Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī KW - Sovet sotrudnichestva arabskikh gosudarstv Persidskogo zaliva KW - SSAGPZ KW - Arab Gulf Cooperation Council KW - مجلس التعاون الخليجي KW - مجلس التعاون لدول الخليج العربية KW - Shūrā-yi Hamkārī-i Khalīj-i Fārs KW - شوراى همکارى خليج فارس KW - Persian Gulf Cooperation Council KW - PGCC KW - Conseil de coopération du Golfe KW - Gulf Cooperative Council KW - Consiglio di cooperazione del Golfo KW - Ccg UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8211488 AB - The ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011 has affected the countries of the region to varying degrees, including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members, comprising Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain. The GCC has become a significant regional bloc playing a vital economic and political role far beyond its shores, given its geopolitical strategic location, a preponderance of global energy reserves and a major international player through the use of accumulated financial reserves. A new Gulf is rising, one that is more self assertive, looking to expand its membership to other Arab countries such as Jordan and Morocco, while at the same time strengthening the bloc’s relationship with current and emerging trading and strategic partners in Europe, USA and Asia. Regional and international realities, especially the uncertainties unleashed by the ‘Arab Spring’, are forcing Gulf leadership to initiate new policies involving closer cooperation amongst GCC countries to address emerging challenges. This volume brings together thirty renowned academics and specialists to examine a range of multifaceted social, political and economic issues facing the GCC in key areas. ER -