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Free Download Paul Ruffin, "The Time the Waters Rose: & Stories of the Gulf Coast"
English | 2016 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 161117614X | EPUB | 0,6 mb
A collection of short stories about the rough and sometimes mysterious waters

Free Download The Future of the Gulf Region: Value Change and Global Cycles by Arno Tausch
English | EPUB | 2021 | 470 Pages | ISBN : 3030782980 | 102.1 MB
This book studies values and attitudes in the Gulf region. In light of global power shifts, the threatening collapse of internal security in the West, and uncertainty about the current leadership vacuum in world society, this book explores a future leading role of the Gulf countries in such institutions as the G-20 and the OECD.

Free Download Alaa Al-Din Arafat, "Regional and International Powers in the Gulf Security"
English | 2020 | pages: 287 | ISBN: 3030433188, 3030433153 | PDF | 4,2 mb
This book discusses the threats and challenges facing the Persian Gulf and the future security in the region, providing an overview of the major regional and extra-regional actors in Gulf security. It argues that except for Iran, no regional or extra-regional actors, including the United States, China, India and Russia, have developed a strategy for Persian Gulf security, and only Turkey has expressed a willingness to provide security for the region. Importantly, the major threats to Persian Gulf security are nonconventional, rather than external, threats to Iranian hegemony or the balance of power. In conclusion, it predicts that the power struggle in the Persian Gulf in the coming decades will be between Iran and Turkey, and not between Iran and Saudi Arabia. This book is of interest to diplomats, journalists, international affairs specialists, strategists and scholars of Gulf politics and security and defence studies.

Free Download Tobias Zumbraegel, "Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Gulf Monarchies"
English | ISBN: 9811945004 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book offers a new perspective about the Gulf Arab states entering a post-oil era by looking at the political factors behind the green transformation. It discusses the recent ‘environmental enthusiasm’ in the oil- and gas-rich Gulf monarchies by asking how political power can be constituted through advocating environmental sustainability. While hydrocarbon-wealthy Gulf monarchies have been viewed as the globe’s ‘hydrocarbon powerhouse’ with an immense ecological footprint, efforts towards sustainability and environmental protection measures are increasingly monitored.

Free Download Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East
by Arang Keshavarzian
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1503633349 | 326 Pages | True PDF | 22.6 MB

Free Download Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Largest Sea Battle of the Second World War (Images of War) by John Grehan
English | July 15, 2021 | ISBN: 1526770393 | 216 pages | PDF | 21 Mb
On 20 October 1944, the U.S. Sixth Army began landing on Leyte’s eastern coast, supported by the U.S. Navy’s 3rd and 7th fleets, which were assisted by ships from the Royal Australian Navy. The Japanese were aware that the Americans were poised to attack the Philippines and planned to draw the American warships into one last great battle to try and stave off the otherwise inevitable defeat. Over the course of the following three days, the two naval forces engaged in four separate engagements. Involving more than 360 ships and 200,000 naval personnel, the battle was the greatest naval encounter of the World War II and possibly the largest naval battle in history.

Free Download Investing in Resilient Infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico: Proceedings of a Workshop
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0309688477 | 104 Pages | PDF | 4.5 MB
To help prioritize among possible investments to improve the resilience of built infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico region, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a diverse group of experts for a 3-day interactive workshop on November 15, 16, and 18, 2021.

Free Download Gulf Business – December 2023
English | 78 pages | PDF | 43.0 MB

Free Download Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, "Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States"
English | ISBN: 1805260294 | 2023 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB
How are authority and influence accumulated and wielded across the six Gulf states? Mixing theoretical and empirical insights, and utilising both historical and contemporary examples, this book offers a comparative analysis of military, political, economic and religious power in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as of the power of narrative. While many volumes examine each of these states individually, ‘Centers of Power in the Arab Gulf States’ assesses the Arabian Peninsula as a whole, filling a significant gap in the literature. It surveys the myriad factors which have influenced the emergence of these states, societies and political economies, which have become increasingly assertive actors in today’s global order. Exploring domestic, regional and transnational pressures, Kristian Coates Ulrichsen sheds light on the varying concepts of power and authority, the different forms they take, the ways they are projected, and the practical constraints on their exercise. From whom does power derive? Is it something different from influence and ambition? Is decision-making top-down or bottom-up, or a mixture of both? From bureaucrats to scholars, and from royals to opposition figures, Coates Ulrichsen uncovers the power relations shaping the Gulf today.

Free Download Transnational Generations in the Arab Gulf States and Beyond by Kyoko Matsukawa, Akiko Watanabe, Zahra R. Babar
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 256 Pages | ISBN : 9819951828 | 15.9 MB
This book examines the recent migration phenomenon in the Arab Gulf states for work and residence. It sheds light on the transnationality of diverse groups of migrants from different generations, and unpacks how migrants’ multiple senses of belonging, orientations and adaptive strategies have shaped contemporary migration in the Gulf region. In turn, the analysis presented here shows how the Arab Gulf states’ citizenship and educational policies affect second-generation migrants in particular. Through a series of fine-grained ethnographic case studies, the authors demonstrate the ways in which these second-generation migrants construct their identities in relation to their putative ‘home’ country in the Gulf as well as their complex relationship to their parents’ countries of origin. This is what underpins the deeply transnational character of their lives, choices and notions of belonging. While migration scholars often situate these groups as ‘temporary’, this does not in fact capture the reality of temporariness for the migrants themselves, their children or their dependants. The result is a complex and ongoing construction of identity that shapes the way of life for millions of migrants. Relevant to scholars of migration and international studies, particularly focused on the Middle East, Transnational Generations in the Arab Gulf States and Beyond is also of interest to social scientists researching student mobility in higher education, intergenerational families, identity politics and globalisation.