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  title info:
    title: Public policy in Gulf States
    sub title: in times of fast paced and complex challenges
  name:
    name part: Qarmout, Tamer
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Zaidan, Esmat
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Joyce, Paul
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 337 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
  abstract: This open access volume focuses on the various processes of state formation and the significant role that organization, citizens, and institutions are coming to play in forming policy in the resource-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. As rentier states, they feature unique systems of governance and policy making. The Gulf region is employing unprecedented influence on international affairs and is a key player in the restructuring of the Middle East and North Africa post 9/11 and following the Arab Spring. The region has an increasingly vital role in the global contemporary system of international power, politics, and policymaking. And yet despite the recent rise of the Gulf Arab states to global power, notably Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain, their policymaking remains under researched. This book pulls focus to their various processes of state policy formation. It considers these states' social, political, and economic development, providing a comparative analysis of policy practices and results, citizens engagement, public-private partnership, human development and human capital, and provides analyses on foreign policy, sovereignty, security, and links to domestic politics. It shows the specific nature of governance relationships in the GCC and this how this is, in turn, affected by the specific nature of social capital and public opinion, as well as leadership and the culture of the business community in the GCC. These, the book suggests, pose challenges to public policy making and delivery in this region. Bringing together experts in public policy analysis, policy implementation and evaluation, governance, international affairs, public administration, public management, and other related social sciences from within and beyond the Middle East, this book is a vital text confronting the gap in the real mechanics of policymaking in the region. This is an open access book.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction (by editors) -- Chapter 2 Strategic Steering of Policy and Policy Formulation -- Chapter 3 Policy Implementation and Experimentation -- Chapter 4 Policy Evaluation and Learning (Including Agile Policy for fast changing challenges and complexity) -- Chapter 5 The 2030 Agenda and the Climate Crisis -- Chapter 6 The GCC supranational level of policy making -- Chapter 7 Small states, subtle power, and the global system -- Chapter 8 Thematic analyses on sovereignty, security, and domestic politics.
  note: Tamer Qarmout, Esmat Zaidan, Paul Joyce, editors.
  note: Open access GW5XE
  subject:
    geographic code: ar-----
  subject:
    geographic: Persian Gulf States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Political planning
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Politique publique
  subject:
    topic: Politique économique
  subject:
    topic: Islam
    topic: Étude et enseignement
  classification: JQ1840 .P83 2026
  classification: 320.9536
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Gulf studies (Singapore) ; v. 14
  identifier: 9789819520503 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9819520509
  identifier: 9789819520497
  location:
    physical location: POD
  access condition: Open access GW5XE
  record info:
    record content source: GW5XE
    record creation date: 260106
    record change date: 20260530144327.4
    record identifier: in00005783173
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng