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The Gulf Cooperation Council at Forty
Risk and Opportunity in a Changing World
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22.02.2023
Summary
All of the GCC countries—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—are undergoing historic socio-economic transitions. They are facing enormous strains on public finances and challenging economic outlooks, due to fluctuating oil prices, demographic pressures, high unemployment rates, and a lack of economic diversification. These countries also are likely to feel the rising impact of climate change, and global policies to deal with it, over the coming decades. In addition, seemingly unstoppable shifts in the long-standing international order, notably the rise of China and uncertainties about U.S. leadership, have potentially serious implications for the Middle East and beyond.
This by noted scholars and experts considers the key trends shaping Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries--Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirate-- ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic, to climate change, economic disruptions, demographics and other domestic concerns, and shifts in the global order.
The book’s chapters address such questions as: How will global megatrends impact the GCC? How can GCC states adjust and diversify their economies to meet the dual challenges of fluctuating oil prices and climate change? How can these states adjust their labor markets to absorb and support women and youth? How will inter GCC disagreements impact the region moving forward? And how will GCC relations with international actors shift in the coming years?
This timely book, with its comprehensive analyses and policy recommendations, will be of interest to a wide range of readers interested in the GCC region, including policymakers, academics, and researchers at think tanks and nongovernmental organizations.
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2023
Publication date
22.02.2023
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-4005-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-3954-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
297
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
1. Introduction: The GCC in Transition No access Pages 1 - 8
2. The Global Economy and the GCC No access
3. US Leadership and Gulf Security in a Multipolar World No access
4. Changing Patterns of Global Energy Markets No access
5. An Integrated Approach to Climate Change and Economic Diversification No access
6. Sino-GCC Relations: Past, Present, and Future Trajectories No access
7. The COVID-19 Pandemic in the Gulf: Impact, Response, and Implications No access
8. GCC Economic Integration in the Aftermath of the Qatar Crisis No access
9. The GCC’s Evolving Financial Markets No access
10. Economic Diversification in GCC Countries No access
11. The Governance of Fiscal and Economic Policy within the GCC No access
12. The Response of Gulf Sovereign Wealth Fundsto Fluctuating Oil Prices No access
13. Structural Reforms, Fiscal Sustainability, and Intergenerational Wealth as the GCC Transitions to a Post-Oil Future No access
14. Labor Market Dynamics and Policy Responses in the Gulf No access
15. Human Capital Development in the GCC No access
16. Women in the Workforce Across the GCC No access
17. Tackling Youth Unemployment in the GCC No access
18. Gulf Labor Migration: Between Structural Constraints and Political Choices No access
19. Migrant Laborers in the Gulf No access
20. The Politics of Economic Reform No access
21. Revisiting Late Rentierism No access
22. Why the GCC’s Economic Diversification Challenges Are Unique No access
23. Gulf Representation and Parliaments in the Face of Austerity Measures No access
24. The True Jihad: Art and Social Change in Saudi Arabia No access
25. Sectarianism in the Gulf No access
26. A New Chapter for Intraregional Relations?: Cohesion, Crises, and Clashes in the GCC No access
27. Rivalry for Export: The Gulf Crisis Goes to Africa No access
28. Is the Iran-Saudi Conflict Resolvable? No access
29. GCC-Arab Relations No access
30. EU-GCC Relations No access
31. The Emergence of GCC-Israel Relations Is a Fixture of the New Middle East No access
32. Conclusion: The GCC Looks to the Future No access
