Change in the Gulf
August 27th, 2008 by Adam
Rami Khouri in the Daily Star examines the Gulf region and its unique combination of economic success (oil money has helped these countries build cities at break-neck speed) and political stalemate (marked by few civil society organizations and impotent legislatures). As its Arab neighbors suffer from “increasingly serious political violence, ethnic and sectarian tensions, corruption, mismanagement, and rickety states,” “the implications of the growing gap between the Gulf Arabs and the rest of the Arabs are unclear, but probably will be consequential.”
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