After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

by Christopher Davidson

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for After the Sheikhs

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

Noted Gulf expert Christopher Davidson contends that the collapse of the Gulf monarchies is going to happen, and always was. The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps, fast-growing populations, and powerful modernising and globalising forces impacting on their largely conservative societies, they have demonstrated remarkable resilience. The obituaries of the traditional monarchies have frequently been penned, but even now, these absolutist, almost medieval, entities still appear to pose the...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781849041898
  • Publish Date 31 October 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
  • Edition UK ed.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Language English