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Author: Jill Crystal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-01-27
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780521466356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book asks why in recent years the social and economic upheavals in Kuwait and Qatar have been accompanied by a remarkable political continuity.
Author: Rosemarie Said Zahlan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-05
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1317291905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Gulf States are the focus of great international interest – yet their fabulous evolution from pearl-fishing to oil-drilling, their individuality and variety, are screened by a thick cloud of petro-dollars. This book, first published in 1989, tells the story of their formation, their evolution from colonial dependency to statehood, and their transformation by oil. The result is an informed and balanced picture of the political, economic, religious and cultural character of the area. It is also a story of the powerful families and their sheikhs that have had to hurry these states into the modern world; of the interchanging role of political and economic dependence, the influence of the oil industry, the influx of workers from abroad, and the varying forces acting on the Gulf States.
Author: Frederick F. Anscombe
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780231108386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat caused the decline of the Ottoman empire in the Persian Gulf? Why has history credited only London, not Istanbul, with bringing about the birth of the modern Gulf States? Using the Ottoman imperial archives, as well as European and Arab sources, Anscombe explains how the combination of poor communication, scarce resources, and misplaced security concerns undermined Istanbul's control and ultimately drove the Gulf shaikhs to seek independence with ties to the British.
Author: Thomas B. Allen
Publisher: Turner Publishing, Incorporated
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGives an quthoritative, full-color chronicle of the Gulf War.
Author: Claire Beaugrand
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-12-18
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1786723239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Kuwaiti population includes around 100,000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often considered `stateless', they have come to be known in Kuwait as biduns, from `bidun jinsiyya', which means literally `without nationality' in Arabic. As long-term residents with close geographical ties and intimate cultural links to the emirate, the biduns claim that they are entitled to Kuwaiti nationality because they have no other. But since 1986 the State of Kuwait, has considered them `illegal residents' on Kuwaiti territory. As a result, the biduns have been denied civil and human rights and treated as undocumented migrants, with no access to employment, health, education or official birth and death certificates. It was only after the first-ever bidun protest in 2011, that the government softened restrictions imposed upon them. Claire Beaugrand argues here that, far from being an anomaly, the position of the biduns is of central importance to the understanding of state formation processes in the Gulf countries, and the ways in which identity and the boundaries of nationality are negotiated and concretely enacted.
Author: Gordon Robison
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThoroughly expanded and updated, this guide covers bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The book features 56 detailed maps, accommodation and restaurant options for all budgets, comprehensive political and historical notes, and invaluable information for travel in post-war Kuwait. Tips are given on buying Bedouin silver and Omani daggers.
Author: Library of Congress. Federal Research Division
Publisher: Division
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch completed January 1993.
Author: Sara Bazoobandi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0415522226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing four Gulf sovereign wealth funds as case studies - Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - this book examines and analyses the history, governance and structure, and investment strategies of the above mentioned funds, in the context of on-going debates about their transparency. The book discusses how most Gulf sovereign wealth funds were established under colonial rule, and have operated in the global financial system for many decades. With the increase of oil revenues, it goes on to look at how the funds have broadened their asset classes and their institutional development. Debate over the transparency of sovereign wealth funds has highlighted various global practices. Recently, organisational measures have been introduced for calculating possible risks from non-commercial investment incentives of funds, whose politically-driven investment strategies are viewed as potentially a major threat to the national security of their host countries. Highlighting a number of incidents that triggered the transparency debate, the book scrutinises the reaction of some of the Gulf sovereign wealth funds to these recent regulatory codes and strategies. It is a useful contribution to Development, Political Economy and Middle East Studies.
Author: Simon C. Smith
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780415331920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines Britain's decision to leave the Gulf and considers the interaction between British decision-making, and local responses and initiatives, in shaping the modern Gulf.
Author: Captivating History
Publisher:
Published: 2020-01-27
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781647484989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe late 1980s and early 1990s were times of significant changes.
