A lively analysis of the Arab Gulf states’ stunning rise to global power over the last half-century and of the daunting challenges they confront today Once just sleepy desert sheikdoms, the Arab Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait now exert unprecedented influence on international affairs—the result of their almost unimaginable riches in oil and gas. In this book, Rory Miller, an expert in Gulf politics and international affairs, provides an accessible account of the achievements of these countries since the 1973 global oil crisis. He also investigates how the shrewd Arab Gulf rulers who have overcome crisis after crisis meet the external and internal challenges of the onrushing future. The Arab Gulf region has become an East–West hub for travel, tourism, sport, culture, trade, and finance. But can the autocratic regimes maintain stability at home and influence abroad as they deal with the demands of social and democratic reform? Miller considers an array of factors—Islamism, terrorism, the Arab Spring, volatile oil prices, global power dynamics, and others—to assess the future possibilities.

Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers: The Rise of the Arab Gulf

Business & Money

Miller, Rory

Economics

Yale University Press

These books, under the General Editorship of two of Britain's most distinguished scholars, John Morrill and David Cannadine, are intended primarily for students and academics. They tackle a wide range of significant historical issues in modern British, European and international history in concise volumes which combine a broad approach (setting out the current state of our knowledge in the area) with the author's own original research and judgements. This is the first full-length survey of Britain's role in Latin America as a whole from the early 1800's, the era of independence, to the 1950's, when the United States inherited Britain's economic hegemony in the region. The main body of the text gives a detailed analysis of Britain's relationship, politically and economically, with the newly independent states. It surveys the entire continent, but gives most attention throughout to the particular cases of Argentina, Brazil and Chile. It examines the aims and attitudes of British officials, merchants and investors through to the first World War, and explores the gradual decline in the British role thereafter.

Britain and Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Studies in Modern History)

Accounting

Longman Pub. Group

The first full-length survey of Britain's role in Latin America as a whole from the early 1800s to the 1950s, when influence in the region passed to the United States. Rory Miller examines the reasons for the rise and decline of British influence, and reappraises its impact on the Latin American states. Did it, as often claimed, circumscribe their political autonomy and inhibit their economic development? This sustained case study of imperialism and dependency will have an interest beyond Latin American specialists alone.

Miller, R.

International

Routledge

Knowledge is power. But understanding is better. You can learn things in a class, but only by analysis, reflection and, above all, testing do you come to understand. The Chiron Training Journal is a place to think and write, to document your journey and your growth. Whether you are a martial artist, a self-defense instructor, a gardener or a writer, journaling will help you understand your past and plan your future in whatever art you study. The CTJ will walk you through setting long-term goals; deriving your own personal lists of the building block skills, principles and concepts that guide your art; and track what you do and what you learn. This is your book. This is your life. Fill it up with good stuff.

Chiron Training Journal

Religion & Spirituality

Wyrd Goat Press, LLC

Divided Against Zion (Israeli History, Politics and Society)

Using primary sources, this study of the relationship between three anti-Zionist bodies in Britain in the years that directly preceded the founding of the State of Israel also analyzes the Zionist attitude to the Jewish Fellowship, the Arab Office and the Committee for Arab Affairs.

Reference

Divided Against Zion: Anti-Zionist Opposition in Britain to a Jewish State in Palestine, 1945-1948 (Cass Series--Israeli History, Politics, and Society, 1)

History

Middle East

Frank Cass & Co.

Based primarily on Irish archival sources, parliamentary debates, EU, UN and Israeli documents as well as the Irish media, this work is the first attempt to examine Ireland's evolving policy towards the Palestine question since the birth of Israel in 1948. Beginning with an analysis of Ireland's approach to the issue both prior to and following its entry into the UN in the mid-1950s it then focuses on Ireland's increasing involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict since its accession to the EEC in the early 1970s. Specifically it deals with four distinct phases: 1973-1980 when the issue of Palestine and the role of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), came to the fore in UN and EU discussions on the Middle East; 1980-1988, when the EEC's support for Palestinian aspirations placed the Community increasingly at odds with Israel; 1988-1996, when the PLO's acceptance of a negotiated settlement to its conflict with Israel was followed by the Madrid and Oslo peace processes; and 1996-2004, a time during which the optimism of the early Oslo years has disappeared.

Ireland and the Palestine Question 1948-2004

Europe

Irish Academic Press

Based primarily on Irish archival sources, parliamentary debates, EU, UN and Israeli documents as well as the Irish media, this work is the first attempt to examine Ireland's evolving policy towards the Palestine question since the birth of Israel in 1948. Beginning with an analysis of Ireland's approach to the issue both prior to and following its entry into the UN in the mid-1950s it then focuses on Ireland's increasing involvement in the Israel-Palestine conflict since its accession to the EEC in the early 1970s. Specifically it deals with four distinct phases: 1973-1980 when the issue of Palestine and the role of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), came to the fore in UN and EU discussions on the Middle East; 1980-1988, when the EEC's support for Palestinian aspirations placed the Community increasingly at odds with Israel; 1988-1996, when the PLO's acceptance of a negotiated settlement to its conflict with Israel was followed by the Madrid and Oslo peace processes; and 1996-2004, a time during which the optimism of the early Oslo years has disappeared.

The first full-length survey of Britain's role in Latin America as a whole from the early 1800s to the 1950s, when influence in the region passed to the United States. Rory Miller examines the reasons for the rise and decline of British influence, and reappraises its impact on the Latin American states. Did it, as often claimed, circumscribe their political autonomy and inhibit their economic development? This sustained case study of imperialism and dependency will have an interest beyond Latin American specialists alone.

Britain and Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Studies In Modern History)

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Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers: The Rise of the Arab Gulf

Britain and Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Studies in Modern History)

Britain and Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Studies in Modern History)

Chiron Training Journal

Divided Against Zion (Israeli History, Politics and Society)

Divided Against Zion: Anti-Zionist Opposition in Britain to a Jewish State in Palestine, 1945-1948 (Cass Series--Israeli History, Politics, and Society, 1)

Ireland and the Palestine Question 1948-2004

Ireland and the Palestine Question 1948-2004

Britain and Latin America in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Studies In Modern History)

Divided Against Zion (Israeli History, Politics and Society)