In the process, the work maps how economic strategies involving FZs evolve alongside varying levels of resource availability and state capacity on a local level while also revealing how development paths in Gulf Arab states are linked to regional and global accumulation circuits.
Dr. Robert Mogielnicki is a Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington DC, USA.
Chapter 1. Mapping Free Zones in the Gulf: Trends and Dislocations.- Chapter 2. Regulating Free Zones: A History of Ownership, Labor, and Fees.- Chapter 3. The Dubai Model and UAE Free Zones.- Chapter 4. Free Zones in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait.- Chapter 5. Elite Embeddedness in Free Zone Development.- Chapter 6. Free Zones as Spheres of Regional Contestation.- Chapter 7. A Commercial Nexus Between East and West.- Chapter 8. The Fraught Future of Free Zones in Gulf Arab States.