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…
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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…
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…
Since the mid-1970s, U.S. decisionmakers have often focused their attention on events in the northwestern Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. During the four year period between early 1977 and early 1981, which roughly corresponded to the Carter Administration, U.S. responses to …
Satellite imagery of the Persian Gulf, fieldwork in Kuwait and Abu Dhabi, and data from published sources are integrated to develop a thorough understanding of large-scale stratal architecture in carbonate ramps. A section of this study deals with the identification of key-surfa…
This dissertation examines the slave trade from East Africa to the Arabian Gulf and the role of the African diaspora in the Gulf economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, this study attempts to present an analytical framework for understanding …
The Persian Gulf is a shallow, semi-enclosed marginal sea where the Persian Gulf Water (PGW), one of the most saline water masses in the world, is formed due to the arid climate. The PGW flushes out of the Persian Gulf as a deep outflow and induces a surface inflow of the Indian…
During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, George H.W. Bush achieved the rhetorical success that had escaped his prior speaking endeavors. If the aforementioned assessments regarded Bush's Gulf War rhetoric as a rhetorical triumph, in light of prior damning criticism of h…
This dissertation examines U.S. foreign policy in the Persian Gulf since World War II. It posits that contingent imperialism can explain American involvement. Three variants of contingent imperialism are applied to this case study: alliance, proxy, and unilateral. The case study…