The banking and financial landscape has been inundated with technology over the last decade, with FinTech, InsurTech and RegTech being just some of the new applications within finance. In the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), FinTech is yet to ­find its feet despite several digital transformation...

Introduction / Dania Thafer and David B. Des Roches 1. - Security Puzzle in the Gulf: New Sectors and New Challenges / Cihat Battaloglu 8. - GCC Arms Imports: Strategie Assessment and Economic Benefits to the United States / John Duke Anthony 23. - The Istanbul Cooperation Initiative as an...

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: DIVERSIFICATION ATTEMPTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA -- 1 Soaring of the Gulf Falcons: Diversification in the GCC Oil Exporters in Seven Propositions -- 2 The Riddle of Diversification -- PART II: EXPERIENCES OF...

Asian Migrant Workers in the Arab Gulf States' examines how nationals and migrants construct new relationships in the segregated socioeconomic spaces of the region (namely, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates).00Instead of assuming that segregation is...

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

This book focuses on how multinational companies can plan and manage their international business in the Gulf countries. Important issues of accounting, auditing, finance, taxation, marketing, and managerial issues are covered in each of the selected Gulf countries.