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Middle East Review of International Affairs
The Gulf Arabs and the New Iraq: The Most to Gain and the Most to Lose?
by Sean Foley
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Abstract
While many of the international and domestic problems of Gulf Arab monarchies have been building for years, the U.S. overthrow of Iraq's government puts these issues in a different context. On the regional scene, this change has improved the security of these countries yet it has also opened new pressures--or opportunities--for domestic reform.
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Note *: Sean Foley is a Ph.D. candidate in Mid-dle Eastern History at Georgetown Univer-sity in Washington, DC. He is the author of “The UAE: Political Issues and Security Dilemmas”, MERIA Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1 (March 1999). He is also the author of the chapter entitled, "What Wealth Cannot Buy," in Barry Rubin, ed., Crisis in the Contemporary Persian Gulf, (London and Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass, 2002). Back