1st Edition
Globalization and the Gulf
Part 1: Overview of How Globalization Has Articulated With Gulf Societies, c.1970-2006 1. The Arab Gulf: Global and Tribal Syncretism Part 2: Globalization: Concepts, History, Dynamics and Consequences 2. The Concept of Security in a Globalizing World 3. A Globalism at the Beginning of the 20th and 21st Centuries 4. Globalization as Economic Phenomenon: A Critical Interpretation 5. The Trends in Globalization Critiqued Part 3: Globalization, Politics and Identity in the Arab World 6. How Likely is Democracy in the Gulf? 7. An Argument for Enhancing Arab Identity within Globalization 8. The Gulf Engulfed: Confronting Globalization American-Style Part 4: Globalization in the Gulf 9. Saudi Arabia's Role in the Global Economy 10. The Impact of Globalization on Arab Gulf States 11. An Overview of International Relations from the Arabian Gulf 12. Foreign Matter: The Place of Strangers in Gulf Society 13. Ambivalent Anxieties of the South Asian-Gulf Arab Labor Exchange 14. The Evolution of the Gulf City Type, Oil and Globalization 15. Historical Globalism in Shajrah
Biography
John W. Fox is Professor of Anthropology at the American University of Sharjah. Nada Mourtada-Sabbah is Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of International Studies at the American University Sharjah. Mohammed Al Mutawa is Associate Professor of Sociology at the United Arab Emirates University.
