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Title

Reform in the Middle East oil monarchies / edited by Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Steven Wright.

Publication

Reading, Berkshire, UK : Ithaca Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Ehteshami, Anoushiravan.
• Wright, Steven M.

Description

x, 309 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Middle East > Politics and government > 1979- > Congresses
• Political participation > Middle East > Congresses
• Middle East > Economic policy > Congresses
• Democracy > Middle East > Congresses

Note

• "This book .. [is] the fruit of a ... conference at Durham University in September 2005 under the auspices of the Sir William Luce Fund and the Institute of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies"--P. vii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-282) and index.

Contents

Foreword / Donald Hawley -- Political reform in the Gulf monarchies : from liberalization to democratization? a comparative perspective / Gerd Nonneman -- Reform in the Arabian Peninsula world / Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean -- Patterns of democratic deficit : is it Islam? / Bahgat Korany -- Political reform in Bahrain : the turning tide / Neil Quilliam -- Deconstructing before building : perspectives on democracy in Qatar / Ahmed Abdelkareem Saif -- Oman's approach to development / Sayyid Badr bin Saʻud Al-Busaidi -- Economic governance and reform in Saudi Arabia / Rodney Wilson -- The impact of economic reform on Dubai / Christopher M. Davidson -- ICT and the Gulf Arab states : a force for democracy? / Emma Murphy -- The future of reform in the societies of the GCC countries / Mohammad Al Rumaihi -- US foreign policy and the changed definition of Gulf security / Steven M. Wright -- Synergies in reform : case studies of Saudi Arabia and Iran / Mahjoob Zweiri.

ISBN

• 0863723233
• 9780863723230

LCCN

40015185553

OCLC

• ocn153580751
• SCSB-5394529

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries