Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf-including Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha-have attracted much global attention over the past decade. The world's tallest building is in Dubai; Saudi Arabia is building five new cities from scratch; and the Louvre, the Guggenheim, and the Sorbonne, as well as many other European and American universities, have outposts in the region. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars, The New Arab Urban showcases the grand ambitions of the Persian Gulf, examining the impact of extreme urbanization on a region where money is plentiful, regulation is weak, and labor conditions are severe. How do authorities in these settings reconcile goals of civic betterment with hyper-segregation and radical in-equality? How do they align cosmopolitan sensibilities with authoritarian rule? And how do elite custodians protect particular forms of social stratification and political control? Drawing on a range of disciplines, contributors address these important questions, and more, by situating the cities of the Persian Gulf in wider global contexts of trade, technology and design. This timely volume provides us with original, insights, adding to our understanding of the modern Arab metropolis-as well as of cities more generally-and how they impact the world. Book jacket.

Urbanization --- Persian Gulf Region --- Persian Gulf Region

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Iran --- Persian Gulf region

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Bahrain --- Persian Gulf Region

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Persian Gulf Region --- -Persian Gulf Region --- -Antiquities --- History

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Gregory Gause's masterful book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of the international politics in the Persian Gulf across nearly four decades. The story begins in 1971 when Great Britain ended its protectorate relations with the smaller states of the lower Gulf. It traces developments in the region from the oil 'revolution' of 1973-74 through the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf war of 1990-91 to the toppling of Saddam Hussein in the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, bringing the story of Gulf regional politics up to 2008. The book highlights transnational identity issues, regime security and the politics of the world oil market, and charts the changing mix of interests and ambitions driving American policy. The author brings his experience as a scholar and commentator on the Gulf to this riveting account of one of the most politically volatile regions on earth.

Persian Gulf Region --- Foreign relations. --- Persian Gulf Region - Foreign relations