Globalization and the Gulf

By: John W. Fox (Editor), Nada Mourtada-Sabbah (Editor), Mohammed Al Mutawa (Editor)

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Hardcover | 8 June 2006 | Edition Number 1

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For centuries, the Arabian Gulf has been a crossroads where seafaring people and Bedouins alike traveled great distances transacting business. Events of the past few years, both good and bad, have directed the world's attention to the Arabian Peninsula, where a rich cultural tradition is rapidly incorporating the latest innovations from around the world. This is the process of globalization.
New economies create enormous potential, but it will require great care for the people of the region to steer through a period of profound change. Political and economic interests intent on maintaining the flow of petroleum products on one hand, and people in the Gulf region who assess their won interests from quite a different perspective, on the other, exert pressures from conflicting directions. Reconciling these interests in a time of rapid globalization poses enormous challenges.
This timely volume, "Globalization and the Gulf" brings together the work of scholars from both the Middle East and the West who have the expertise to evaluate the interaction of new ideas, new technologies and new economies. Brought together by the American University of Sharjah and the Sociological Association of the UAE, the contributors reflect on both the process of globalism and on the traditions of Gulf society and culture, and they offer views on how these trends interact within the global system.

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List of illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. x
Overview of globalization synchronized with Gulf social norms, c. 1970-2006	p. 1
The Arab Gulf region: traditionalism globalized or globalization traditionalized?	p. 3
Globalizations concepts, history, dynamics, and consequences	p. 61
The concept of security in a globalizing world	p. 63
Globalization at the beginnings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries	p. 78
Globalization as economic phenomenon: a critical interpretation	p. 90
The trends in globalization critiqued	p. 107
Globalization, politics, and identity in the Arab world	p. 125
How likely is democracy in the Gulf?	p. 127
An argument for enhancing Arab identity within globalization	p. 141
The Gulf engulfed: confronting globalization American-style	p. 148
Globalization in the Gulf	p. 163
Saudi Arabia's role in the global economy	p. 165
The impact of globalization on Arab Gulf States	p. 180
An overview of international relations from the Arabian Gulf	p. 189
Foreign matter: the place of strangers in Gulf society	p. 200
Ambivalent anxieties of the South Asian-Gulf Arab labor exchange	p. 223
The evolution of the Gulf city type, oil, and globalization	p. 244
Heritage revivalism in Sharjah	p. 266
Index	p. 288
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