Get Hold Of Power And Politics In The Persian Gulf Monarchies Authored By Christopher Davidson Accessible As Document

command of the world's largest hydrocarbon reserves and occupying a central role in both Middle Eastern and global politics, the six traditional monarchies Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates UAE that comprise the Gulf Cooperation Council are now among the most heavily researched yet most commonly misunderstood actors in the international system.
Christopher Davidson, an acclaimed expert on the fast moving politics and economics of the Gulf, together with five other leading authorities on the region, has brought together a unique collection of comprehensive yet highly accessible analyses of these six states.
Following a succinct theoretical overview of the various achievements, opportunities, and collective challenges faced by the monarchies, each chapter discusses their individual historical backgrounds, political structures, economic diversification efforts, and future prospects.
Drawing on the latest research in the field, the most uptodate statistics, and written in a frank and critical manner, this textbook is a valuable addition to university reading lists on Middle Eastern studies or political science, while also appealing to the general interest reader.
The book consists ofchapters for each of the GCC countries, with accounts on state formation, the political structure and/or personalities, economic development and diversification, foreign policy, and future challenges.
For a book written before the consequences of the Arab Spring unfolded, I believe reading this book would have opened my eyes to many things

earlier, Still, it's a good generic read, The numbers in the economic parts would have been better supported by graphs though, as one could lose track when the paragraphs are long, Dr Christopher Davidson, BA MA Cambridge M, Litt Ph. D St. Andrews FHEA Dr Christopher Davidson read Modern History at Kings College, University of Cambridge, before taking his M, Litt and Ph. D in Political Science at the University of St, Andrews. He has lived and worked in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Beirut, Before joining Durham he was an assistant professor at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates, first on the Abu Dhabi campus, then in Dubai, He is also a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and inwas a visiting associate professor at Kyoto University, Japan, He is the author of five single authored books, The latest, After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies was published in summerby Oxford Dr Christopher Davidson, BA MA Cambridge M, Litt Ph. D St. Andrews FHEA Dr Christopher Davidson read Modern History at King's College, University of Cambridge, before taking his M, Litt and Ph. D in Political Science at the University of St, Andrews. He has lived and worked in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Beirut, Before joining Durham he was an assistant professor at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates, first on the Abu Dhabi campus, then in Dubai, He is also a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and inwas a visiting associate professor at Kyoto University, Japan, He is the author of five single authored books, The latest, After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies was published in summerby Oxford University Press in the US, A UK/Europe edition was published earlier in the year by Hurst Co and Arabic and Farsi translations were published in, Book launch lectures have been held at George Washington University , the London School of Economics , and other, shorter presentations on the book have been given at the Oxford Union and with the Project on Middle East Political Science.
It has already been reviewed by The Independent, The Guardian, The Economist, Tribune Magazine, and The Huffington Post, It was listed by the Foreign Policy Association as one of the 'Most Significant Books of' listed as one of Foreign Policy's 'Top Ten Books on the Middle East from' and also as one of Al Monitor's 'TopEssential Mideast Books.
' In MayForeign Policy published an excerpt from the US edition, Hisbook Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success was named a book of the year by both the New Statesman and the London Evening Standard, and has been reviewed, inter alia, by the Financial Times, the New York Times, the New York Books, Foreign Affairs, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the free Arabic press, and dozens of scholarly journals.
It has been the subject of multiple television and radio documentaries and was cited by the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph, and the Independent as having predicted theDubai crash.
He is co editor of the book series Power and Politics in the Gulf, This was previously published simultaneously by Columbia University Press in the US and C, Hurst Co in the UK, and is now published by Oxford University Press, His edited book, published in December, serves as the cornerstone for the series, He is the author of than a dozen scholarly articles, many of which have appeared in leading journals such as Foreign Affairs, Asian Affairs, Middle East Policy,,, and the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
He is a United Nations Alliance of Civilizations expert on the politics and development of the Gulf monarchies, His work has also been referred to by the UN's High Commissioner on Refugees, He is also an associate fellow of the Royal United Services Instutitute RUSI, He has appeared on most major television and radio news bulletins, including the BBC, CNN, Sky, ABC, Al Jazeera, Japan's NHK, Bloomberg, ITV, and NPR, He has also been a guest on a number of prime time current affairs shows including the BBC's Newsnight, Sky's Jeff Randall Show, CNN's Connect the World, Bloomberg's Last Word, Radio's Today and PM shows, NPR's All Things Considered, NHK's Asian Voices, and Al Jazeera's Inside Story, Riz Khan, Counting the Cost, and Empire shows.
In Decemberhe appeared on BBC World's Doha Debates, speaking for the motion 'This House has no Confidence in Bahrain's Promise to Reform', He has been interviewed and his work cited by the leading international newspapers and the Arabic press, His opinion editorials have appeared in the New York Times,, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Foreign Policy, the New Statesman, and OpenDemocracy, He has also written for Al Akhbar newspaper, with his article 'انهيار دبي الكبي ' / 'The Great Dubai Crash' being published in Sept sitelink,