Awaiting a miracle -- The double-edged sword -- Determined to diversify -- Reaping the demographic dividend -- Greasing the wheels of exchange -- Build it and they will come -- All together now? -- The imperative of change -- Navigating choppy waters -- Charting the way forward.

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...

This book analyzes the recent development of Gulf capitalism through to the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. Situating the Gulf within the evolution of capitalism at a global scale, it presents a novel theoretical interpretation of this important region of the Middle East political economy