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The Political Costs of Qatar's Western Orientation
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2012 , Article)
No (Gulf) Country for Syrian Refugees
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The Council on Foreign Relations
, 2015 , Article)
A common reaction to the ongoing migrant crisis has been to blame Europe: how can the wealthy nations of western Europe allow such a tragedy? More recently, however, media and popular scrutiny have turned back toward the ...
Renegotiating the Ruling Bargain: Selling Fiscal Reform in the GCC
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Middle East Institution
, 2016 , Article)
Built upon depletable reservoirs of oil and natural gas, the petro-states of the Arab Gulf
have, since their beginning, always had one eye fixated on the end: the exhaustion of their
life-giving natural resources, and ...
Annual Omnibus Survey : A survey of life in Qatar 2012
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The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University.
, 2012 , Other)
This executive summary presents the highlights of the 2012 Omnibus survey, the third in
a series of Omnibus surveys, carried out by the Social and Economic Survey Research
Institute (SESRI) of Qatar University. The Omnibus ...
Civil society and democratization in the Arab Gulf
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http://foreignpolicy.com/
, 2011 , Article)
qatar has been a notable exception to the wave of popular political mobilization that has struck Arab countries since January 2011. This is particularly so given the prominent role of its state-owned television station Al ...
Creating and sustaining Islamic financial centers: Bahrain in the wake of financial and political crises
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Taylor & Francis
, 2016 , Article)
Although primarily concentrated in countries with Muslim majorities,
Islamic finance has become a global industry representing
both a decentering of the global financial architecture and the
emergence of an urban network ...
Views of the Gulf Cooperation Council among Qatari and Other Gulf Nationals
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The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University
, 2016 , Report)
Here we examine the orientations of Qatari citizens toward the Gulf Cooperation
Council (GCC) as revealed in a pan-GCC survey conducted in 2016. We assess
general attitudes toward the Council as an institution, toward ...
Public Spending Priorities in Qatar
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SESRI
, 2017 , Report)
Together with previous survey findings, SESRI’s study of fiscal priorities among Qataris
demonstrates the importance to citizens of healthcare and education, and to a lesser
extent other sectors such as social security ...
Qatar’s first elections since 2017 reveal unexpected impact of GCC crisis
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Al-Monitor
, 2019 , Article)
Turnout in the Qatari municipal election has declined, suggesting a Qatari citizenry that is slightly less engaged in the formal political process in the wake of the GCC crisis.
Society and State in Post-Blockade Qatar: Lessons for the Arab Gulf Region
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Taylor and Francis
, 2020 , Article)
This article examines key questions of citizen-state, citizen-citizen, and citizen-expatriate relations in the Arab Gulf states through the lens of the 2017 Qatar blockade. It utilizes original public opinion survey data ...