Shifting Geo-Economic Power of the Gulf: Oil, Finance and Institutions

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Contents
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Geo-Economic Power of the Gulf
Part I Economic Diversification and Rentier Politics in the Gulf Arab States
	1 Gulf Arab States’ Investment of Oil Revenues
	2 The Political Economy of Monetary Integration and Exchange Rate Regime in the GCC
	3 Economic Diversification in the Gulf Arab States: Lip Service or Actual Implementation of a New Development Model?
	4 The Evolution of Rent Recycling During Two Booms in the Gulf Arab States: Business Dynamism and Societal Stagnation
	5 Institutional Competition and Symbiosis in the Gulf: The Politics of Efforts to Establish an International Islamic Financial Policy Forum
	6 Oil and Financialization in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Part II Gulf Arab Investments and Trade
	7 The GCC’s International Investment Dynamics: The Role of Sovereign Wealth Funds
	8 Arab Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Challenge of Transparency
	9 Gulf Arab Sovereign Wealth Funds: Governance and Institution Building
	10 Shifting Gulf Arab Investments into the Mashreq: Underlying Political Economy Rationales?
	11 
The Gulf Arab States and Asia Pacific: 
Geo-Economics and Interdependency
	12 Geo-Political Complications of US Free Trade Agreements with Gulf Arab Countries
	Conclusion – Repositioning the Gulf: 
The GCC in the Twenty-First Century Global Political Economy
References
Index