Profile Books, 2012. — 224 p. The Gulf state of Qatar tops the Forbes list of the world's richest countries. In 2010, the country had the world's highest GDP per capita, and its reserves of oil and natural gas are vast. It has been estimated that Qatar will invest more than 120 billion in the energy sector over the next ten years. Yet Qatar has climbed to this pinnacle of...
Springer, 2022. — 380 p. This book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a sustainable Qatar requires engagement with diverse areas of social-political, human, and environmental development. On the environmental aspects, the contributors address...
I.B. Tauris, 2013. — 204 p. What role does Qatar play in the Middle East and how does it differ from the other Gulf states? How has the ruling Al-Thani family shaped Qatar from a traditional tribal society and British protectorate to a modern state? How has Qatar become an economic superpower with one of the highest per capita incomes in the world? What are the social,...
Routledge, 2022. — 237 p. This book explains the parameters of Qatar’s political growth by developing an alternative theory of power – ‘rented’ power. The author demonstrates how Qatar’s emergence as a regional power can be solely explained by its capacity as a gas-rich rentier state. By using Qatar as an empirical case study of the ‘rented’ power theory, readers will gain...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 312 p. The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran...
Reaktion Books, 2020. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-1789143119 (hardcover). Qatar is a country of spectacular contrasts: from pearl fishing, its main industry until the 1930s, to gas and oil, which generate immense wealth today; to famously being at the center of both triumph and controversy in recent years for hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Almost a lifetime since he grew up in...
Progressive Management, 2011. — 108 p. Comprehensive and unique information with professional analysis of Qatar politics and history, economic, social, military, and national security systems and institutions, written by the experts at the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. This Country Study is an exceptional review of Qatar, its history, and nearby Persian...
Исследование, Москва, Институт Ближнего Востока, 2013. — 311 с.
Автор данной работы имеет опыт зарубежных поездок и исследований, а также работы в МИДе. В данной работе автор обращает внимание на развитие Катара, его историю и возможности сотрудничества со многими странами, в том числе и с Россией.
Монография. — М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2015. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89282-613-6. Монография представляет собой аналитическое исследование экономики Катара, которая рассматривается как объективный фактор упрочения катарской государственности и дальнейшего продвижения страны по пути нациестроительства. Показано, каким образом небольшой арабской монархии Персидского залива...
СПб.: Алетейя, 2020. — 420 с. — (Аравия. История. Этнография. Культура). — ISBN 978-5-00165-184-0. Книга, предлагаемая вниманию читателя, - это полная история Катара с древнейших времен и до наших дней. Открыв ее, читатель совершит увлекательное путешествие в седое прошлое Катара, во времена властвования в его землях ушедших в сказания и предания арабов Аравии цивилизаций...
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