Good Governance in the Middle East Oil Monarchies

by Hetherington,Martin

• ISBN13: 9780415297400
• ISBN10: 0415297400
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-21
• Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon

Summary

The concept of "good governance" is of increasing importance, and is used by international organisations to ensure reasonable conformity to high standards in states which participate in the global trading regime and other international activities. This book examines the concept of good governance and how it is applied in the states of the Gulf Co-operation Council. These states are particularly important because of their strategic location and massive oil wealth. Moreover, as monarchies, in most cases without powerful democratic representative bodies, and as Islamic countries, with a different outlook from countries of the West, Western standards of good governance may need to be modified in order for them to be implemented effectively.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	xiii
Good governance: the definition and application of the concept	1	(28)
Tom Pierre Najem
The states of the Gulf Co-operation Council	29	(31)
Neil Quilliam
The politics of participation in the oil monarchies	60	(25)
Anoushiravan Ehteshami
Good international governance: implications for Saudi Arabia's political economy	85	(17)
Rodney Wilson
Dynamics of GCC press--government relations in the 1990s	102	(17)
Naomi Sakr
Climate governance in the GCC	119	(18)
Christiaan Vrolijk
Index	137