This book is a study of the seafaring communities of the Arabian Gulf and Oman in the past 150 years. It analyses the significance of the dhow and how coastal communities interacted throughout their long tradition of seafaring. In addition to archival material, the work is based…
This dissertation locates the emergence of capitalism and modern state practice in the Persian Gulf port of Basra in elite manipulations of novel state instruments including land deeds, securitized guarantees, and nationality certificates. Globally, the nineteenth century witnes…
This thesis is an attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the British withdrawal from the Gulf in 1971, with special emphasis on the Trucial States before it became the United Arab Emirates in December 1971.The work commences with a review of the historical British connec…
Pearling provided the basis for economic prosperity for the port cities in the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today. However, in the light of oil wealth, pearling has been relegated to the distant past. It is overshadowed by the pace and scale of c…
This dissertation is an academic study of the practice of the ṣaut music genre in Bahrain and Kuwait. Most of the questions and resources discussed in this work have not been examined previously in an academic study. By comparing the style of performance that is currently preval…
Imperial powers have employed a range of strategies to establish and then maintain control over foreign territories and communities. As deploying military forces from the home country is often costly – not to mention logistically stretching when long distances are involved – man…
This book discusses the threats and challenges facing the Persian Gulf and the future security in the region, providing an overview of the major regional and extra-regional actors in Gulf security. It argues that except for Iran, no regional or extra-regional actors, including t…
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 set in motion a number of consequential events not only on Kuwait, but also on Iraq’s other neighbors. This study examines the impact of Saddam’s provocation on Saudi Arabia’s security strategy and military planning between 1990 and 2000. The hy…
Archaeological investigations in the Emirate of Dubai, UAE conducted by the Dubai Department of Archaeology and the University of Arkansas demonstrate that the desert inland of the Oman Peninsula was occupied not only during the Arabian Neolithic (8000–4400 BC), when the region …
The development of a strong and viable economic structure has long been an essential objective of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states--Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. For these states, industrial development policies is the basic k…
This dissertation investigates the activities of the American missionaries, specifically the impact of the "Arabian Mission," on Kuwaiti society. A good understanding of the impact is achieved by studying Kuwaiti documents, interviews, personal memoirs, British documents, and mi…
This dissertation examines the impact of the spectrum of debate in Washington on the spectrum of debate in the news in cases of American military intervention in the post-Vietnam era. If there is conflict in Washington, critical viewpoints are easy to find in the news. If there …
This thesis takes issue with the "thesis of U.S. decline" as expounded and applied to the events in Southwest Asia in the 1970s and early 1980s. First, it demonstrates that the setbacks of those years were not a consequence of U.S. military weakness; they were a natural result o…
The purpose of this thesis is to determine the likely leaders of the Persian Gulf in the 1990s. The thesis focuses on Iran and Saudi Arabia's roles as both economic powers and political leaders in the Gulf. Political and economic trends indicate that Iran's current internal inst…