Globalization and the Gulf / edited by John W. Fox, Nada Mourtada-Sabbah and Mohammed al- Mutawa.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Arab Gulf region : traditionalism globalized or globalization traditionalized? / John W. Fox, Nada Mourtada-Sabbah, Mohammad Al-Mutawa -- The concept of security in a globalizing world / Steve Smith -- Globalization at the beginnings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Roger Owen -- Globalization as economic phenomenon : a critical interpretation / Tim Niblock -- The trends in globalization critiqued / Ismail Sirageldin -- How likely is democracy in the Gulf? / Khaldoun Al Naqeeb -- An argument for enhancing Arab identity within globalization / Gaber Asfour -- The Gulf engulfed : confronting globalization American-style / Michael C. Hudson -- Saudi Arabia's role in the global economy / Rodney Wilson -- The impact of globalization on Arab Gulf states / Abdulkhaleq Abdulla -- An overview of international relations from the Arabian Gulf / Fred Halliday -- Foreign matter : the place of strangers in Gulf society / Paul Dresch -- Ambivalent anxieties of the South Asian-Gulf Arab labor exchange / John Willoughby -- The evolution of the Gulf city type, oil, and globalization / Sulayman Khalaf -- Heritage revivalism in Sharjah / John W. Fox, Nada Mourtada-Sabbah, Mohammed Al-Mutawa.