The new Middle East / Working Paper
The Gulf in the new world order: a forgotten emerging power?
07/09/2010 By Publicaciones FRIDE
Emerging powers are taking a greater share of global economic and political power. The international system is being recast, and attention focuses on the more assertive roles being assumed by China, India, Brazil, and South Africa, as well as the likes of Malaysia, South Korea, Mexico, and Russia. It is striking that relatively little attention is paid within such debates to Middle Eastern states. It is important to ask whether indicators in the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) may or may not merit this region also being included in discussions of new emerging powers.
This working paper concludes FRIDE’s contribution to the Al-Jisr research project, and draws from research undertaken by a team comprising Edward Burke, Ana Echagüe, Richard Youngs (all of FRIDE), John Sasuya and Natalia Alshakhanbeh (both of the Gulf Research Centre).
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