Dr Yousef Khalifa Al-Yousef is a political scientist specialising in international economi. He was a professor at the United Arab Emirates University between 1989 and 2007. He earned his DPhil in Economi at Essex University, UK, and his MAs in Applied Economi and in Near Eastern and North African Studies from the University of Michigan, US. The author of numerous papers and books on the political economy of the GCC States, his other publications include The Political Economy of Oil: An Arab Perspective. He lives in the UAE.
Since the oil boom of the 1970s, the Gulf Cooperation Council States have attempted to achieve economic stability and realise their development goals. Such efforts have so far been in vain, however, as these states' autocratic governments have closed off their political systems with...
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