Council Chronicle Vol. 5, No. 3 (Summer – Fall 2011) (.pdf file)
GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL (GCC) DYNAMICS (III)
Chair:
Dr. John Duke Anthony - Founding President and CEO of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, and author, inter alia, of Arab States of the Lower Gulf: People, Politics, Petroleum and Historical and Cultural Dictionary of the Sultanate of Oman and the Emirates of Eastern Arabia.
Speakers:
Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla - Professor of Political Science, Emirates University (Abu Dhabi); lead author, 2008 Arab Knowledge Report. (UAE)
Dr. Abdulla Al-Shayji - Chairman, Department of Political Science, Kuwait University, and author, Kuwait’s Ceaseless Quest for Survival in a Hostile Environment. (Kuwait)
Mr. Jeremy Jones - Author of Negotiating Change: The New Politics of the Middle East and the forthcoming Oman, Culture and Diplomacy; Senior Associate Member, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies; National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Distinguished International Fellow. (Oman)
Dr. Thomas Mattair - Executive Director, Middle East Policy Council; former Research Scholar, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research; author,The Three Occupied UAE Islands: The Tunbs and Abu Musa and Global Security Watch — Iran: A Reference Handbook. (Bahrain)
Commentator:
Mr. Robert Lacey - Historian, and author of, inter alia, The Kingdom: Arabia & the House of Sa’ud (1982) and Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia (2009). (Saudi Arabia)
John Duke Anthony – The GCC Summit in Perspective: A Conversation with John Duke Anthony (via ArabiaLink)
John Duke Anthony – On the Eve of the GCC Summit: A Conversation with John Duke Anthony (via SUSRIS)
John Duke Anthony – The United Arab Emirates: A Pioneer in Political Engineering (.pdf file). From the UAE National Center for Documentation & Research program New Perspectives On Recording UAE History.
In Arabic (.pdf)
John Duke Anthony – Economic Development in the GCC Region in Focus (.pdf file)
In 2007 Dr. Anthony was contracted by Britannica Book of the Year (BBOY), publication of Encyclopaedia Britannica, to write an original essay on “Boom in the Gulf.” The essay focused on the extraordinary construction boom underway in the six GCC countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The essay, which can be accessed through the above link, was accepted and appears in the 2008 edition of the BBOY. The National Council is pleased that Encyclopaedia Britannica has granted permission for the Council to reprint the essay in full.
John Duke Anthony – An American in Qatar: Observations on the 2007 GCC Summit (via SUSRIS)
John Duke Anthony – The U.S.-GCC Relationship (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – The Gulf Cooperation Council: Strengths (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – The Gulf Cooperation Council: Constraints (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – GCC Heads of State Summits: Context and Perspective (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – In The Shadow Of The Clouds: Assessing The GCC’s 23rd Summit (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – The UAE in Perspective: How It Came to Be (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – The GCC’s 22nd Summit: Security And Defense Issues (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – The Intifada, the U.S. and GCC Countries (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – The GCC’s 21st Summit, Part Two: Defense Issues (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – The GCC’s 21st Summit, Part One: Economic Issues (.pdf file)
Jan H. Kalicki – U.S.-GCC Business and Economic Dialogues: Progress and Prospects (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – GCC Tariffs En Route to a Common Market and a Customs Union: A Report on the 20th Annual GCC Heads of State Summit – FULL REPORT (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – GCC Summit Report (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – Perspectives on U.S.-Gulf Relations
John Duke Anthony – Why Weren’t the Russians, Chinese, and French On Board? (.pdf file).
John Duke Anthony – The united Arab break from radicalism (.pdf file). This article appeared in The Washington Times on Friday, December 11, 1998.
John Duke Anthony – GCC summit ushers in a new era (.pdf). This article appeared in Arab News on Tuesday, December 8, 1998.
John Duke Anthony – The 18th Annual GCC Heads Of State Summit: Consultation and Consensus in Kuwait (24 MB – .pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – The 18th Annual GCC Heads Of State Summit: Summary (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – The 17th GCC Heads of State Summit and Aftermath: Whither the GCC? (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – The 16th Heads of State Summit: Insights and Indications (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – Iran in GCC Dynamics (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony – The Dynamics of GCC Summitry Since the Kuwait Crisis (.pdf file)
John Duke Anthony - Energy: The Gulf Region’s Engine of Development (.pdf file). This appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Friday, July 28, 1989.
John Duke Anthony – The US and the GCC: Economic Challenges and Response (.pdf file).
John Duke Anthony – Energy: The GCC’s Engine of Development (.pdf file).

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