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The UAE after the Arab Spring - Strategy for Survival (Hardcover)
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The UAE after the Arab Spring - Strategy for Survival (Hardcover)
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Why did the Gulf monarchies - and the UAE in particular - avoid the
upheavals and challenges of the Arab uprisings? This book examines
how the UAE survived the waves of regional unrest. It departs from
attributing regime survival to rentier state theory and instead
offers a more nuanced approach to understanding the pillars of
regime legitimacy upon which the UAE now rests. In doing so, the
book sheds light on the transformation of the UAE from a quietist
state, which relied almost entirely upon an overseas security
guarantor, to an assertive regional power in its own right. Written
by an Emirati author who understands the internal dynamics of the
country, the book examines the state's proactive foreign policy and
the changing domestic and regional environment influencing its
decisions. The book argues that the UAE leadership encouraged a new
national identity to evolve amid the pressures of modernity,
particularly at a time when young Emiratis had access to
information beyond government control via social media. This is
also part of its shift away from a country based on a rentier
economy to a situation where the citizens take more initiative,
learn more skills, and increasingly enter the private sector to
help the country prosper. This has given rise to a new Emirati
identity that is politically conservative, economically neo-liberal
and socially liberal. In providing an analysis of the policies of
the UAE leadership before and after the Arab Spring, this book is a
vital contribution to the literature on Emirati domestic and
foreign policy and points to where the country might be headed.
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