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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345138103321

Titolo

Good governance in the Middle East oil monarchies / / edited by Tom Pierre Najem and Martin Hetherington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003

ISBN

1-134-43151-1

1-134-43152-X

1-138-36213-1

0-203-22083-8

1-280-07066-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 p.)

Collana

Durham modern Middle East and Islamic world series ; ; 4

Classificazione

88.10

Altri autori (Persone)

NajemTom

HetheringtonMartin

Disciplina

321/.009535

Soggetti

Persian Gulf States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Good governance: the definition and application of the concept / Tom Pierre Najem -- The states of the Gulf Co-operation Council / Neil Quilliam -- The politics of participation in the oil monarchies / Anoushiravan Ehteshami -- Good international governance: implications for Saudi Arabia's political economy / Rodney Wilson -- Dynamics of GCC press-government relations in the 1990s / Naomi Sakr -- Climate governance in the GCC / Christiaan Vrolijk.

Sommario/riassunto

The concept of 'good governance' is of increasing importance, and is used by international organizations to ensure reasonable conformity to high standards in states which participate in the global trading regime and other international activities.  This book examines the concept of good governance and how it is applied in the states of the Gulf Co-operation Council.  These states are particularly important because of their strategic location and massive oil wealth.  Moreover, as monarchies, in most cases without powerful democratic representative bodies, and as Islamic countries, with a differ