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by Sean Foley

Author: Sean Foley
Subcategory: Social Sciences
Language: English
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers; New ed. edition (April 30, 2010)
Pages: 315 pages
Category: Other
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PDF On Jan 1, 2010, Gerd Nonneman and others published The Arab Gulf states: beyond oil and . International Affairs 86: 5, 2010.

PDF On Jan 1, 2010, Gerd Nonneman and others published The Arab Gulf states: beyond oil and Islam by Sean Foley. of the Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. He does so in a series of highly readable thematic chapters.

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This book by Sean Foley provides a new Downloaded by at 03:17 19 July 2013 look at the region’s history from about 1920 until the present. The deliberate focus on factors other than oil and Islam means that some important phenomena are given less attention than a general textbook on Gulf history would require. These phenomena also include the religious revivalism, or sahwah, that started in Saudi Arabia in the 1960s.

The Arab Gulf States book. It is these complex issues, Foley shows us, that are at the forefront as the Arab Gulf states grapple with the challenges of both modernity and money.

Sean Foley is professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University. The Emergence of the Modern Gulf,1930-1981. Globalization, Wars, and a Telecommunications Revolution. When Only Women Will Work.

His first book, The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam, was published in 2010 by Lynne Rienner Press and has . The Gulf and the Arab Spring: An American’s Perspective.

The Gulf and the Arab Spring: An American’s Perspective. Paper presented to the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Institute of Diplomatic Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, June 2013.

The Arab Gulf States Institute is a Washington, . based think tank dedicated to covering the "social, economic, and political diversity of the Arab Gulf states. Ambassador Frank G. Wisner is Chairman of the Board of the Institute. Several contributors produce long and short-term strategic papers on issues of concerning the Gulf states, and their relationship with the United States and each other.

If petroleum buys political legitimacy in the Arab Gulf states, how can we explain the rise of dissent and calls for political reform despite sustained oil revenues? The answer, according to Sean Foley, lies in political, social, and economic dynamics that have been brewing beneath the surface for more than a decade and that are slowly shifting the balance of political power.Though Foley does not disagree that oil revenues have been important in preserving the power of Gulf autocrats, he goes beyond popular stereotypes to identify other crucial forces that are conspiring to disrupt the status quo. Chief among these are the telecommunications revolution, which has brought news of democracy (as well as regime misdeeds) to people s homes, the lack of jobs for major segments of the male population, and the increasing economic power of women and minority groups. It is these complex issues, Foley shows us, that are at the forefront as the Arab Gulf states grapple with the challenges of both modernity and money.