Notes
1. For example, see: Rosemarie Said Zahlan, The Making of the Modern Gulf States: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, Routledge, Abingdon, 1989; F. Gregory Gause, III, Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States, Council on Foreign Relations Press, New York, 1994; Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era, Oxford University Press, New York, 2015; Joseph A. Kéchichian, From Alliance to Union: Challenges Facing Gulf Cooperation Council States in the Twenty-First Century, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2016.