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Domestic Sources of Twenty-first-century Geopolitics: Domestic Politics and Sovereign Wealth Funds in GCC Economies

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Pages 197-217 | Received 18 Jan 2017, Accepted 19 Jan 2018, Published online: 05 Feb 2018

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