This book examines the strategies and dynamics through which state-society relations in the Arab Gulf region have been cultivated, and explores the alternative

The book analyzes recent changes to the identities and cultures of the GCC countries. These important transformations have gone largely unnoticed due to the fas

This book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Situating the Gulf within the evolution of ca

Why do many Asian, African, and Latin American states have such difficulty in directing the behavior of their populations--in spite of the resources at their di

The author's objective within this book is to place the Arab world within a theoretical and comparative framework that avoids both orientalist and fundamentalis