The ruling family’s brutal and misjudged response to Bahrain’s protest movement is undermining its own legitimacy, says Christopher M Davidson.
The politics of a small Persian Gulf kingdom do not usually reverberate far beyond its borders. But an accumulation of social tensions and rights violations in Bahrain gives its coming election a rare international importance, say Christopher M Davidson & Kristian Coates-Ulrichsen.
The financial crisis in Dubai exposes the hollow reality underlying the city’s glitzy facade of wealth. The political implications for the United Arab Emirates and the wider region are enormous.
The United Arab Emirates is powering into the 21st century on the back of two rapidly diversifying macroeconomies. The wealthiest emirate of Abu Dhabi is supplementing its massive oil and
The United Arab Emirates - comprising seven sheikhdoms, including the internationally renowned Dubai - were on 16 June 2008 elevated to the highest terrorism risk level by Britain's
