Globalization and the Gulf (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Fox, John W.; Al Mutawa, Mohammed; Mourtada-Sabbah, Nada

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This timely volume brings together the work of scholars from both the Middle East and the West who reflect on both the process of globalism and on the traditions of Gulf society and culture, and discuss how these trends interact within the global system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135988289
• Artikelnr.: 39041757

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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