Globalization and the Gulf / edited by John W. Fox, Nada Mourtada-Sabbah and Mohammed Al Mutawa
Material type:
- 9780415770149 (pbk.)
- 0415770149 (pbk)
- 9780415770132 (hbk)
- 0415770130 (hbk)
- 953.053 22 FO GL
- DS326 .G62 2006
- DS326 .G62 2006
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Bahrain HIS | History | 953.053 FO GL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3000002312 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
The Arab Gulf region : traditionalism globalized or globalization traditionalized? / John W. Fox, Nada Mourtada-Sabbah, Mohammad Al-Mutawa -- The concept of security in a globalizing world / Steve Smith -- Globalization at the beginnings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Roger Owen -- Globalization as economic phenomenon : a critical interpretation / Tim Niblock -- The trends in globalization critiqued / Ismail Sirageldin -- How likely is democracy in the Gulf? / Khaldoun Al Naqeeb -- An argument for enhancing Arab identity within globalization / Gaber Asfour -- The Gulf engulfed : confronting globalization American-style / Michael C. Hudson -- Saudi Arabia's role in the global economy / Rodney Wilson -- The impact of globalization on Arab Gulf states / Abdulkhaleq Abdulla -- An overview of international relations from the Arabian Gulf / Fred Halliday -- Foreign matter : the place of strangers in Gulf society / Paul Dresch -- Ambivalent anxieties of the South Asian-Gulf Arab labor exchange / John Willoughby -- The evolution of the Gulf city type, oil, and globalization / Sulayman Khalaf -- Heritage revivalism in Sharjah / John W. Fox, Nada Mourtada-Sabbah, Mohammed Al-Mutawa
For centuries, the Arabian Gulf has been a crossroads where seafaring people and Bedouins alike travelled 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 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, offering views on how these trends interact within the global system.
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