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Issues | The Gulf on the Verge: Ambitions, Crises and Shattering Order
- Spring 2018 / Volume 20, Number 2
The Gulf on the Verge: Ambitions, Crises and Shattering Order
Editor's Notes
Editor's Note | Spring 2018
The Gulf is a sub-region consisting of Saudi Arabia and five small states, namely Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. This sub-region emerged after the British recognized the independence of the above-mentioned small entities between 1961 and 1971. Having an abundant amount of natural resources, i.e. oil and natural gas, the Gulf States are among the richest countries in the world; therefore, they do not share the poverty and political instability widely found in the Middle East.
Commentaries
Over the past year, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has experienced
a period of rapid transformation...
The election of the U.S. President Donald Trump played a key role in reigniting the Gulf crisis....
Sectarianism in the Middle East has intensified since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the...
The diplomatic and economic blockade of Qatar launched on June 5, 2017 has gravely weakened the...
This commentary analyzes the factors behind Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as...
Articles
The United Arab Emirates is one of the leading countries in the Middle East in terms of active...
On March 26, 2015, Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes on Yemen with the aim of restoring the rule...
With the growing need for more cooperative relations in the face of Iran’s assertive foreign...
The repercussions of the Arab Spring and new polarization between Iran, Israel and the Gulf...
The shifts in U.S. foreign policy toward the Palestinian cause reveal the fact that this policy...
Recent studies of diversionary theory focus on domestic determinants of conflict between...
When Iran’s nuclear agreement was signed, critics raised questions about the terms of the...
The literature about factors that promote growth and change presents models of diffusion that are...
Review Article
Arts, Market and the State: Cultural Policies in Introspect
The field of cultural policies is novel and burgeoning; it harbors diverse and even contradictory approaches, with no universally recognizable principles; it has no common language of its own nor any unified theoretical perspective. The field is fragmented and heterogeneous in nature and bound to the interaction of multiple actors in different institutional settings. Although it began initially as a western academic and institutional endeavor, and developed mostly in the U.S. and Western Europe, cultural policies has turned out to be a common good for the entire world both as an academic discipline and as a bureaucratic and institutional enterprise.
Book Reviews
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