{"id":76,"date":"2017-01-28T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T11:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christopherdavidson.net\/BaseHub\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2023-03-14T07:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T07:48:20","slug":"after-the-sheikhs-the-coming-collapse-of-the-gulf-monarchies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/christopherdavidson.net\/BaseHub\/after-the-sheikhs-the-coming-collapse-of-the-gulf-monarchies\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\"\"Th<\/span>e 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Obituaries for these traditional monarchies have frequently been penned, but even now\u00a0these absolutist, almost medieval, entities still appear to pose the same conundrum as before: in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring and the fall of incumbent presidents in Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, the apparently steadfast Gulf monarchies have, at first glance, re-affirmed their status as\u00a0the Middle East\u2019s only real bastions of stability.\u00a0In this book, however, noted Gulf expert Christopher Davidson contends tha\"\"t the collapse of these kings, emirs, and sultans is going to happen, at least in their present form, and was always going to.\u00a0While the revolutionary movements in North Africa, Syria, and Yemen will undeniably serve as important, if indirect, catalysts for the coming upheaval, many of the same socio-economic pressures that were building up in the Arab republics are now also very much present in the Gulf monarchies. It is now no longer a matter of if but when the West\u2019s steadfast allies fall. This is a bold claim to make but Davidson, who accurately\u00a0\"\"forecast the economic turmoil that afflicted Dubai in 2009, has an enviable record in diagnosing social and political changes afoot in the region.<\/p>\n

Publishers\u2019 websites:\u00a0Hurst & Co<\/a>. \/\u00a0Oxford University Press<\/a><\/p>\n

Translated versions:\u00a0Arabic<\/a>\u00a0(full electronic download available\u00a0here<\/a>);\u00a0Farsi<\/a><\/p>\n

Table of contents: available\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpt (chapter 2 \u2013 \u2018Explaining Survival \u2013 Domestic Matters\u2019): available\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

Reviews and features:<\/b><\/p>\n

Foreign Policy Association \u2013\u00a0Most Significant Books of the Year (2013)<\/a><\/p>\n

Oxford University Press Blog \u2013\u00a0Five Academic Books that Changed the World<\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian \u2013\u00a0review<\/a><\/p>\n

The Independent \u2013\u00a0review<\/a><\/p>\n

The Economist \u2013\u00a0review<\/a><\/p>\n

Tribune Magazine \u2013\u00a0review<\/a><\/p>\n

Huffington Post \u2013\u00a0review<\/a><\/p>\n

Bloomberg \u2013\u00a0review<\/a><\/p>\n

International Affairs \u2013\u00a0review<\/a><\/p>\n

Arabian Humanities \u2013\u00a0review<\/a><\/p>\n

Middle Eastern Studies \u2013\u00a0review<\/a><\/p>\n

Contemporary Arab Affairs \u2013\u00a0review<\/a><\/p>\n

H-Net \u2013\u00a0review<\/a><\/p>\n

Heythrop Journal \u2013\u00a0review<\/a><\/p>\n

El-Badil News \u2013\u00a0review (Arabic)<\/a><\/p>\n

Al-Akhbar \u2013\u00a0review (Arabic)<\/a><\/p>\n

Ettelaat \u2013\u00a0review (Farsi)<\/a><\/p>\n

Foreign Policy \u2013\u00a0excerpt<\/a><\/p>\n

Foreign Affairs \u2013\u00a0excerpt<\/a><\/p>\n

Project on Middle East Political Science \u2013\u00a0author interview (video)<\/a><\/p>\n

Oxford Union \u2013\u00a0author presentation (video)<\/a><\/p>\n

George Washington University \u2013\u00a0author lecture (video)<\/a><\/p>\n

BBC Hard Talk \u2013\u00a0author interview (video)<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday Times (Pakistan) \u2013\u00a0On the Bookshelf<\/a><\/p>\n

Sudan Vision \u2013\u00a0Christopher Davidson and the Black Swan<\/a><\/p>\n

The Page 99 Test \u2013\u00a0After the Sheikhs<\/a><\/p>\n

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