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Reform in the Middle East Oil Monarchies. Edited by Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Steven Wright. Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 2008. 309 pp. $54.50.
The six Persian Gulf monarchies - Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman - have for decades been undergoing sustained economic development that was matched by little if any political reform. Reform in the Middle East Oil Monarchies argues that this situation has changed. By far the most interesting essay is the introduction by Gerd Nonneman, which argues that...