Good Governance in the Middle East Oil Monarchies (Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series)

Hetherington, Martin (EDT)/ Najem, Tom Pierre (EDT)

Routledge（2003/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 160 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415297400
• DDC分類 338.956

Full Description

The concept of 'good governance' is of increasing importance, and is used by international organizations to ensure reasonable conformity to high standards in states which participate in the global trading regime and other international activities. This book examines the concept of good governance and how it is applied in the states of the Gulf Co-operation Council. These states are particularly important because of their strategic location and massive oil wealth. Moreover, as monarchies, in most cases without powerful democratic representative bodies, and as Islamic countries, with a different outlook from countries of the West, Western standards of good governance may need to be modified in order for them to be implemented effectively.

Contents

Introduction  1. Good Governance: The Definition and Application of the Concept  2. The States of the Gulf Co-operation Council  3.  Reform from Above: The Politics of Participation in the Oil Monarchies  4. Good International Governance: Implications for Saudi Arabia's Political Economy  5. Dynamics of GCC Press-Government Relations in the 1990s  6. Climate Governance in the GCC