After the sheikhs : the coming collapse of the gulf monarchies /
The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps, fast-growing populations, and powerful mod...
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Oxford University Press, USA,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Acronyms; The revolutions that never came; Explaining monarchical survival; Further explanations; Introduction; Origins of the Gulf monarchies; Britain and the early order; Independence and state formation; Economic development trajectories; 1. State Formation and Economic Development; Distributing wealth; National elites; Co-opting expatriates; Cults of personality; Heritage and history; Co-opting religion; Environmental credentials; 2. Explaining Survival-Domestic Matters; Development assistance and international charityActive neutrality: peacekeeping and mediation; Soft power in the West: strategic investments and development assistance; Soft power in the West: cultural institutions; Soft power in the West: financing universities and manipulating research; Soft power in the East: China and Japan; 3. Explaining Survival-External Matters; Resources, populations, and subsidies; Voluntary unemployment; Squandering wealth; Poverty and real unemployment; Discrimination, statelessness, and sectarianism; Censorship and limiting expression.
- 4. Mounting Internal PressuresWelcoming foreigners and eroding legitimacy; Western bases and armaments; Antagonising Iran; Israel: the unholy alliance; Division and disunity; Interference and coups d'état; 5. Mounting External Pressures; Evolving opposition; Modernising forces; Countering the Arab Spring: the wrong side of history; Bahrain: rage and revolution; Oman: protests and promises; Saudi Arabia: the cracks appearing; Kuwait: 'The People's Spring'; United Arab Emirates: opposition emerges; Qatar: champion or charlatan?; 6. The Coming Collapse; Conclusion; Postscript; Notes.