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9780415770132

Globalization And the Gulf

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415770132

  • ISBN10:

    0415770130

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-07-24
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Globalization and the Gulf describes and explains how the strategically situated societies along the Arabian Gulf, in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Oman, have embraced the forces of globalization transforming the world into a single market, albeit on their own terms.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations ix
Foreword x
PART I Overview of globalization synchronized with Gulf social norms, c.1970-2006 1(60)
1 The Arab Gulf region: traditionalism globalized or globalization traditionalized?
3(58)
JOHN W. FOX, NADA MOURTADA-SABBAH, AND MOHAMMED AL-MUTAWA
PART II Globalization: concepts, history, dynamics, and consequences 61(64)
2 The concept of security in a globalizing world
63(15)
STEVE SMITH
3 Globalization at the beginnings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
78(12)
ROGER OWEN
4 Globalization as economic phenomenon: a critical interpretation
90(17)
TIM NIBLOCK
5 The trends in globalization critiqued
107(18)
ISMAIL SIRAGELDIN
PART III Globalization, politics, and identity in the Arab world 125(38)
6 How likely is democracy in the Gulf?
127(14)
KHALHOUN AL NAQEEB
7 An argument for enhancing Arab identity within globalization
141(7)
GABER ASFOUR
8 The Gulf engulfed: confronting globalization American-style
148(15)
MICHAEL C. HUDSON
PART IV Globalization in the Gulf 163(125)
9 Saudi Arabia's role in the global economy
165(15)
RODNEY WILSON
10 The impact of globalization on Arab Gulf States
180(9)
ABDULKHALEQ ABDULLA
11 An overview of international relations from the Arabian Gulf
189(11)
FRED HALLIDAY
12 Foreign matter: the place of strangers in Gulf society
200(23)
PALL DRESCH
13 Ambivalent anxieties of the South Asian-Gulf Arab labor exchange
223(21)
JOHN WILLOUGHBY
14 The evolution of the Gulf city type, oil, and globalization
244(22)
SULAYMAN KHALAF
15 Heritage revivalism in Sharjah
266(22)
JOHN W.FOX, NADA MOURTADA-SABBAH, AND MOHAMMED AL-MUTAWA
Index 288

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