The decline of petroleum resources is a real problem that needs to be addressed by the non-
renewable energy policies applied by world governments. Renewable energies such as …

Abstract The six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States have an excellent geographical
location as a point that link between East and West in addition to the vast wealth resulting …

Why do Muslim-majority countries exhibit high levels of authoritarianism and low levels of
socio-economic development in comparison to world averages? Ahmet T. Kuru criticizes …

How did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century?
The conventional wisdom about Iraq's modern political history is that the country was …

In this 2010 edition of their book on the economic development of the Middle East and North
Africa, Clement Henry and Robert Springborg reflect on what has happened to the region's …

Rentier state theory (RST), which seeks to explain the impacts of external payments-or rents-
on state-society relations and governance, has been in wide usage for over two decades …

The contrast between Kuwait and the UAE today illustrates the vastly different possible
futures facing the smaller states of the Gulf. Dubai's rulers dream of creating a truly global …

Led by Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the UAE has become deeply embedded in the contemporary
system of international power, politics, and policy-making. Only an independent state since …

The article explains how several Gulf rentier monarchies have managed to create highly
profitable and well-managed state-owned enterprises (SOEs), confounding expectations of …

While scholars have long looked at the role of political Islam in the Middle East, it has been
assumed that domestic politics in the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so …