Arab Gulf States-the Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam

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While not disputing the undeniably important role played by oil rents, Foley suggests that the telecommunications revolution and a series of other reThosealities of the "modern" era have created new forms of politics and governance and spawned in parallel a more enlightened leadership from the familial elites. Foley points to the political evolution in places like Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar as evidence of halting steps towards more representative governments in the region that bear no relationship to the traditional tribal, familial patronage networks of the past.

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Arab Gulf States-the Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam

ARAB GULF STATES The Arab Gulf States: Beyond Oil and Islam, by Sean Foley. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner. v + 281 pages. Bibl to 297. Index to p. 314.

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