scholarly journals The Persian Gulf States and Afghanistan: Regional Geopolitics and Competing Interests

Asia Policy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Author(s):  
Zahra R. Babar

The six oil monarchies of the Persian Gulf together form one of the most concentrated global sites of international labor migration, with some of the highest densities of non-citizens to citizens seen anywhere in the world. A somewhat unique feature of the region is that while it hosts millions of migrants, it allows almost no access to permanent settlement. Gulf States have hosted large cohorts of migrants for more than half a century but have done so without efforts toward formal integration through citizenship. Although labor migration as a phenomenon is both permanent and prominent, the Gulf States’ mechanism for governing migration systematically reinforces the temporariness and transience of their migrant populations.


2010 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-36
Author(s):  
James Leigh ◽  
Predrag Vukovic

In recent decades world supply of oil has been increasingly held in the Islamic countries around the Persian Gulf. The fact that the level of oil production is high in these countries and that they possess most of the world's oil reserves could be extremely significant. This 'petropower' could lead to strategic geopolitical developments when oil is used as economic and political weapons. It may be that the apocalyptic appeal of militant Islamism coming out of Iran can weld both Shia and Sunni people of the region to the cause of establishing a world Islamic 'caliphate'. This may appear in a new world of a tripartite mix of superpowers, one of which could be an Iranian-led oil rich Islamic bloc of Gulf states. Each superpower would vie for advantage, and particularly two of these superpowers would seek favor in maintaining supplies of oil imports increasingly from a potentially Iran dominated mix of oil producing Islamic countries. .


1960 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-260
Author(s):  
S. H. Longrigg

1960 ◽  
Vol 126 (2) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
E. G. Hanrott ◽  
Rupert Hay

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Roger E. Kanet ◽  
Sumit Ganguly

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