fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Political Science WILLIAMS COLLEGE Williamstown‚ Massachusetts MAY 10‚2005 Table of Contents I Persian Gulf Development Literature Oil Curse Literature Arab and Islamic Factors Regional Ovemiew and Historical Background Dubai’s Development History I1 PI1 Explaining Dubai9sDevelopment Outcome Why Not Other Gulf States? Dubai versus the Development Literature IV Dubai in a Cornparatbe Corntext
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stop looking at business from the Western point of view and start looking at it from the Middle Eastern perspective. In other words‚ to succeed in the Middle Eastern region business people from the West need to start thinking and seeing things in way Arabs do. When trying to establish and successfully run business in the Middle East it is of essential importance to get to know traditions‚ morals and principals of local people. For instance‚ in the Western business environment for an individual to
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United Arab Emirates is seeing a more cosmopolitan‚ consumer-oriented lifestyle evolve‚ buoyed by oil revenues‚ massive infrastructure development‚ and a growing multinational workforce. The U.A.E. is a federation of seven states‚ or emirates‚ bordering on the Arabian Gulf and surrounded by Qatar‚ Saudi Arabia and Oman. Together‚ Abu Dhabi‚ Dubai‚ Sharjah‚ Umm al-Qaiwain‚ Fujairah‚ Ra’s al-Khaimah and Ajman occupy 83‚000 square kilometers with 700 kilometers of coastline
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Facts Location: Dubai‚ United Arab Emirates Building Type: Hotel Owner: Sheikh Maktoum Hasyer Maktoum Al-Maktoum Number of Floors: 60 Building Height: 321m Architect: Tom Wills-Wright Structural Engineer: Martin Halford (Eversendai Engineering) MEP Engineers: DSE Engineering Group Contractor: Murray & Roberts & Al Habtoor Engineering Contracting Method: Design-Build Architectural Organizing Principles: Inspire by Dhow boats. Built for royalty and the affluent. Major
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HRM Strategies Arab Emirates Airline Executive Summary Arab Emirates Airline is the largest major airline in the Middle East which is owned by the Government of Dubai directly under the Investment Corporation of Dubai. Arab Emirate Airline is one of the most high profile and glamorous company among the Emirate Group. Currently‚ Emirate Group seeks key role in the knowledge-based economy which determines potentials for progress of nations and their economic success. While airline traffic in
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founded upon and unified by Islam‚ Saudi Arabia has fascinated travellers for centuries. From its vast deserts and barren plains emerged the monotheistic religion of Islam‚ the Arab race‚ and the country’s distinctive Arab culture. Occupying approximately 80% of the Arabian Peninsula‚ today this south-west Asian monarchy‚ rich in Arab and Muslim heritage and characterised by a high degree of cultural homogeneity is home to a plethora of successful‚ oil-rich cities. A sound knowledge of the Kingdom of Saudi
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ComFlor® case study Dubai Metro Project‚ United Arab Emirates Client: Government of Dubai Road & Transport Authority/RTA Project management and supervision: Systra-Parsons Designer: WS Atkins & Partners Overseas -ATKINS Main contractor: Dubai Rapid Link Consortium/DURL (Obayashi Corporation - Kajima Corporation - Yabi Merkezi & Mitsubishi Heavy Industrial) Decking system: ComFlor® 80 Telephone: 0845 30 88 330 The Dubai Metro urban train network is a major transport infrastructure
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Academic research essay: How have the Arab revolutions influenced politics in North Africa‚ Middle East and the world? Student: Aigerim Oryngaziyeva E15 The revolutions that swept the Arab world over the past two years have revealed the extreme fragility of the major Arab states. “Arab Spring” shakes the Middle East for half years. Many people believe that the key driving the force behind the revolutions are new technologies of social media
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Khaleeji-Capital: Class-Formation and Regional Integration in the Middle-East Gulf * Adam Hanieh Zayed University‚ Dubai ahanieh@gmail.com Abstract The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain‚ Kuwait‚ Oman‚ Qatar‚ Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) are most typically understood from the perspective of their position as the world’s key oil- and gas-producing states. This essay explores the largelyoverlooked processes of class-formation in the GCC‚ and argues that very profound tendencies
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state of Saudi Arabia‚ located in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula. Doing business in the Middle East entails that one be respectful and sensitive to the dominant Arab culture that transcends borders in this region of the world. This means that one must be cognizant of the fact that “when it comes to business etiquette... in the Arab world... you have to respect that you are in a Muslim country” (LyLDL 1). Islam is the dominant religion in the Middle East and North Africa and Saudi Arabians adhere
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