The transformation of the Gulf : politics, economics and the global order / edited by David Held and Kristian Ulrichsen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the transformation of the Gulf / David Held and Kristian Ulrichsen -- Part 1: The domestic context : changing dimensions of political and social structures. The difficult development of parliamentary politics in the Gulf : parliaments and the process of managed reform in Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman / Greg Power -- Nationalism in the Gulf states / Neil Partrick -- Migration politics in the Arabian Peninsula / John Chalcraft -- Gender and participation in the Arab Gulf / Wanda Krause -- The Arab Gulf moment / Abdulkhaleq Abdullah -- Part 2: Economic reforms and evolution of governing structures. Governing markets in the Gulf States / Mark Thatcher -- The development of Islamic finance in the Gulf Cooperation Council states / Rodney Wilson -- Anatomy of an oil-based welfare state : rent distribution in Kuwait / Laura El-Katiri, Bassam Fattouh and Paul Segal -- Volatility, diversification and development in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries / Miklós Koren and Silvana Tenreyro -- Sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf : an assessment / Gawdat Bahgat -- Energy and sustainability policies in the Gulf states / Steffen Hertog and Giacomo Luciani -- Part 3: Internationalisation of the Gulf : security and foreign policy. Security and strategic trends in the Middle East / Anoushiravan Ehteshami -- The challenge of transition : Gulf security in the twenty-first century / Kristian Ulrichsen -- Foreign policies with international reach : the case of Qatar / Steven Wright -- Trends in Gulf state assistance to crisis-affected contexts / Sultan Barakat and Steven A. Zyck -- Gulf-Pacific Asia linkages in the twenty-first century : a marriage of convenience? / Christopher Davidson -- Afterword / David Held and Kristian Ulrichsen.

This book examines the political, economic and social transformation of the six member-states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the ways in which these states are both shaping, and being reshaped by, the processes of globalisation. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the volume combines thematic chapters focusing on issues such as globalisation, nationalism and identity, political thinking, and economic diversification and redistributive policymaking with empirical chapters studying specific aspects of reform and change: the emergence of governing markets, the rise of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Islamic Finance, the relationship between energy and sustainability, trends in foreign aid donorship, strategic and foreign policy formulation. Contributions from experts in the field provide cutting-edge snapshots of a region in flux and collectively offer a roadmap of its repositioning in the global order, examining the interaction between global processes and internal dynamics of change and resistance that inject new dimensions into debates over the loci of local and global transformations and the manner in which each plays off the other. Situating the Gulf States firmly within their global twenty-first century context, this book will hold particular appeal to theorists of globalisation as well as to scholars of comparative politics, international political economy and area studies.