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Change and Development in the Gulf

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Abbas Abdelkarim

    1. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  3. Oil and the Economy: Dependence and Diversification

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. The State in Oil Rentier Economies: the Case of Bahrain

      • Khalid M. Abdulla
      Pages 51-78

    3. Industrial Strategies and Change in the UAE during the 1980s

      • Fatima S. Al-Shamsi
      Pages 79-103

    4. Diversification through Industrialization: the Saudi Experience

      • Osama Saad Ahmed
      Pages 104-130

  5. Political Change and Militarization: the Impact of the Gulf War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
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    2. Post-War Kuwait and the Process of Democratization: the Persistence of Political Tribalism

      • Paul Aarts
      Pages 213-237

    3. Arms, Oil and Security in the Gulf: a Tenuous Balance

      • Serge Herzog
      Pages 238-259

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 260-270
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Processes of change, stagnation and development in the countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council are analyzed in this book. The contributors show impact of oil revenues on population change and social development and on redefining the socio-economic role of the state. Oil could open venues for industrialization and development. However, lack of population policies, problems of human resources development, the rather slow change in gender relations and in political systems and heavy spending on militarization, it is argued, could impede development endeavour.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Abbas Abdelkarim

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PAUL AARTS Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam KHALID M. ABDALLA Department of Economics, University of Bahrain, Manama OSAMA SAAD AHMED Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Manama, Bahrain BAQUER SALMAN AL-NAJAR Department of Sociology, Manama University of Bahrain FATIMA S. AL-SHAMSI Department of Sociology, Manama University of Bahrain ELEANOR DOUMATO Department of Economics, University of United Arab Emirates, UAE ADIL OSMAN GEBRIEL Consultant, Amsterdam, Netherlands CHARLOTTE HEATH Department for International Development, London SERGE HERZOG Ministry of Defence, Geneva, Switzerland

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