Today, processes of regionalization are expressed, among other ways, in the establishment of various international regional organisations. Many of these organisations are aimed at economic and customs cooperation. Regulation of customs relations among states and international organisations is...

This chapter discusses the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in Middle Easter and Arab Gulf Countries with a special focus on sources of law, reciprocity, the jurisdictional requirement and public policy

The main objective of the Water Sector Review in the member countries the Cooperation Council of the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) is to (1) conduct a diagnosis of the current situation of the water sector, identify issues in the GCC region, evaluate the GCC governments' current water policies,...

NATO’s 2023 summit in Vilnius was dominated by Russia’s war against Ukraine. The summit in Washington, D.C., in July 2024 will be influenced by an additional major conflict in NATO’s neighbourhood: the war in Gaza and the related heightened tensions in the Middle East. These have also...

In the late twentieth century, the world economy is experiencing a trend towards regional integration of national economies. Regionalization, or the “promotion by governments of international economic linkages with countries that are geographically proximate,” may be intimately related to...

Recently, the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau of Arab States (UNDP RBAS) and the World Bank produced thoroughly researched and clearly written reports addressing development and regional integration in the Arab/Middle East North Africa (MENA) region. Both reports were...

This volume, edited by Said El-Naggar, is the fifth in a series of seminars dealing with economic issues of particular importance to the Arab countries. Held in Manama, Bahrain, in February 1993, it covered topics pertaining to economic development of the Arab countries in the nineties. The...