ISBN10: 3030782980, ISBN13: 9783030782986, [publisher: Springer International Publishing] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book studies values and attitudes in the Gulf region.In light of global power shifts, the threatening collapse of internal security in the West, and uncertainty about the current leadership vacuum in world society, this book explores a future leading role of the Gulf countries in such institutions as the G-20 and the OECD. Based on rigorous analysis of macro-level data and opinion surveys with relevance for the Gulf region, it analyzes the global macro-factors shaping the Gulf's future at a time of the global COVID-19 crisis and depression and rising global tensions. Starting with an empirical time series analysis of the long cycles of global politics and economics, it highlights the implications for the Gulf region. Offering a multivariate analysis of civil society values in the Gulf, the author analyzes value changes and attitudes on antisemitism, political Islam, internal security, democracy, and other issues of Arab politics. The partially optimistic conclusions of the study testify to the underestimated and incipient maturity of the Gulf's civil society and strongly suggest that the Gulf's future is rather with the free societies of the West and not with a Neo-Ottoman Empire in whatever form.'Exceptional in scope and right up-to-the-minute in coverage'Brian M Pollins, Associate, Prof ...
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ISBN10: 3030782980, ISBN13: 9783030782986, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2021]

1st ed. Date: 2021 edition NO-PA16APR2015-KAP. Hardback. New. 2021. ISBN 3030782980 9783030782986 [US]

ISBN10: 3030782980, ISBN13: 9783030782986, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover
[Miami, FL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2021]