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For over 150 years, from 1820 up to the foundation of the United Arab Emirates in 1971, Britain and the emirates of the eastern Arabian Peninsula were linked by a relationship that was unique when compared to colonial models exercised elsewhere. From the signing of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Gulf in 1820, through to the oil and aviation concession agreements penned during the mid- to late-20th century, formal treaties and agreements with the rulers of the various emirates formed the basis of Britain's long influence in the region, and are discussed in detail in this study. It also explores the evolution of the area's first security force in the early 1950s - the Trucial Oman Levies (TOL), which played a key role in the security and development of the emirates.

Great Britain --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- United Arab Emirates --- Federation of Arab Emirates --- UAE (United Arab Emirates) --- Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah --- إمارات العربية المتحدة --- Ittiḥād al-Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah --- اتحاد الإمارات العربية --- Ittiḥād Imārāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī --- اتحاد إمارات الخليج العربي --- Fédération des Emirats unis --- Union des Emirats arabes --- U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates) --- Emirats arabes unis --- Vereinigte Arabische Emirate --- Arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraattien liitto --- Yhdistyneet arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraatit --- Arabiemiirikuntien liitto --- Emiraatit --- Förenade Arabemiraten --- Arabemiraten --- アラブ首長国連邦 --- Arabu Shuchōkoku Renpō --- Trucial States --- Foreign relations --- History --- Politics and government

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a federation of seven emirates (principalities): Abu Dhabi, the oil-rich capital of the federation; Dubai, its free-trading commercial hub; and the five smaller and less wealthy emirates of Sharjah, Ajman, Fujayrah, Umm al-Qaywayn, and Ras al-Khaymah. The UAE's relatively open borders and economy have won praise from advocates of expanded freedoms in the Middle East while producing financial excesses, social ills such as human trafficking, and opportunity for UAE-based Iranian businesses to try to circumvent international sanctions. The social and economic freedoms have not translated into significant political change; the UAE government remains under the control of a small circle of leaders who allow citizen participation primarily through traditional methods of consensus-building. To date, these mechanisms, economic wealth, and reverence for established leaders have enabled the UAE to avoid wide-scale popular unrest. Since 2006, the government has increased formal popular participation in governance through a public selection process for half the membership of its consultative body, the Federal National Council (FNC). But, particularly since the Arab uprisings that began in 2011, there has been an increase in domestic criticism of the unchallenged power and privileges of the UAE ruling elite as well as the spending of large amounts of funds on elaborate projects that cater to tourists. The leadership has resisted any dramatic or rapid further opening of the political process, and it is becoming increasingly aggressive in preventing the rise of Muslim Brotherhood- linked Islamist, as well as secular opposition movements. The crackdown is drawing increased criticism from human rights groups. This book examines the UAE's 2012 human rights and religious freedom reports; its problem with human trafficking; the economic investment climate; and relations with the U.S.

Economic development --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- United Arab Emirates --- Federation of Arab Emirates --- UAE (United Arab Emirates) --- Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah --- إمارات العربية المتحدة --- Ittiḥād al-Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah --- اتحاد الإمارات العربية --- Ittiḥād Imārāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī --- اتحاد إمارات الخليج العربي --- Fédération des Emirats unis --- Union des Emirats arabes --- U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates) --- Emirats arabes unis --- Vereinigte Arabische Emirate --- Arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraattien liitto --- Yhdistyneet arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraatit --- Arabiemiirikuntien liitto --- Emiraatit --- Förenade Arabemiraten --- Arabemiraten --- アラブ首長国連邦 --- Arabu Shuchōkoku Renpō --- Trucial States --- Foreign relations

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Economic development. --- Economic development --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Gulf Cooperation Council. --- Gulf Co-operation Council --- Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf --- States of Gulf Co-operation Council --- Golf-Rat --- GCC --- G.C.C. --- Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī --- Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī al-ʻArabī --- GKR --- Kooperationsrat Arabischer Staaten am Golf --- Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf --- Duwal Majlis al-Khalīj --- Gŏlpʻŭ Hyŏmnyŏk Wiwŏnhoe --- Kŏlpʻŭ Hyŏmnyŏk Wiwŏnhoe --- Majlis al-Taʻāwun li-Duwal al-Khalīj al-ʻArabīyah --- Golfkooperationsrat --- AGCC --- A.G.C.C. --- Duwal Majlis al-Taʻāwun al-Khalījī --- Sovet sotrudnichestva arabskikh gosudarstv Persidskogo zaliva --- SSAGPZ --- Arab Gulf Cooperation Council --- مجلس التعاون الخليجي --- مجلس التعاون لدول الخليج العربية --- Shūrā-yi Hamkārī-i Khalīj-i Fārs --- شوراى همکارى خليج فارس --- Persian Gulf Cooperation Council --- PGCC --- Conseil de coopération du Golfe --- Gulf Cooperative Council --- Consiglio di cooperazione del Golfo --- Ccg --- United Arab Emirates --- Saudi Arabia --- Qatar --- Oman --- Sultanate of Oman --- ʻUmān (Sultanate) --- Salṭanat ʻUmān --- Muscat --- Mascate --- عمان --- سلطنة عُمان --- オマーン --- オーマン --- Muscat and Oman --- Catal --- Catar --- Chatar --- Daulat Qaṭar --- Dawlat Qaṭar --- Država Katar --- Dzi︠a︡rz︠h︡ava Katar --- Emirat Katar --- Emiratu de Qatar --- Estado de Catar --- Estato de Qatar --- Estau de Catal --- Ètat du Qatar --- Gwladwriaeth Qatar --- Katala --- Katar --- Kʼatár Bikéyah --- Katari Riik --- Kataro --- Kratos tou Katar --- Medinat Ḳaṭar --- Qatarin valtio --- Qatarko estatua --- Staat Katar --- Staat van Katar --- Stad Katar --- Stad Qatar --- Stát Katar --- State of Qatar --- Steat ny Catar --- Κράτος του Κατάρ --- Κατάρ --- Катар --- Дзяржава Катар --- קטאר --- מדינת קטאר --- دولة قطر --- قطر --- Federation of Arab Emirates --- UAE (United Arab Emirates) --- Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah --- إمارات العربية المتحدة --- Ittiḥād al-Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah --- اتحاد الإمارات العربية --- Ittiḥād Imārāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī --- اتحاد إمارات الخليج العربي --- Fédération des Emirats unis --- Union des Emirats arabes --- U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates) --- Emirats arabes unis --- Vereinigte Arabische Emirate --- Arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraattien liitto --- Yhdistyneet arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraatit --- Arabiemiirikuntien liitto --- Emiraatit --- Förenade Arabemiraten --- Arabemiraten --- アラブ首長国連邦 --- Arabu Shuchōkoku Renpō --- Trucial States --- Economic conditions. --- E-books

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Released on the 500-year anniversary of the publication of Sir Thomas More's Utopia, this volume seeks to adapt and apply More's fecund imagination to the contemporary leisure landscape. The contributors to this volume theorize and analyze a variety of "tourist utopias"--A nascent socio-spatial form crucial to a post-industrial global economy. From Disney World to Dubai, "Middle Earth" to Marina Bay, Macau to Abu Dhabi, these sites share common characteristics that include their respective status as "spaces of exception"; entrepreneurial governance regimes that rely on cooperation among state and non-state actors; transient, multinational populations; immaterial and affective forms of labor and consumption; superlative and iconic architecture; and economies devoted to such leisure activities as shopping, gambling, and spectacle. These locales are not only popular destinations for migrant workers and mobile tourists from around the globe, but also serve as cultural laboratories for testing new formats and protocols of an emergent post-Fordist form-of-life.

Tourism --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Popular Culture. --- Anthropology --- Cultural. --- Public Policy --- Cultural Policy. --- United Arab Emirates. --- Southeast Asia. --- China --- Asia, Southeast --- Asia, Southeastern --- South East Asia --- Southeastern Asia --- Federation of Arab Emirates --- UAE (United Arab Emirates) --- Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah al-Muttaḥidah --- إمارات العربية المتحدة --- Ittiḥād al-Imārāt al-ʻArabīyah --- اتحاد الإمارات العربية --- Ittiḥād Imārāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArabī --- اتحاد إمارات الخليج العربي --- Fédération des Emirats unis --- Union des Emirats arabes --- U.A.E. (United Arab Emirates) --- Emirats arabes unis --- Vereinigte Arabische Emirate --- Arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraattien liitto --- Yhdistyneet arabiemiirikunnat --- Arabiemiraatit --- Arabiemiirikuntien liitto --- Emiraatit --- Förenade Arabemiraten --- Arabemiraten --- アラブ首長国連邦 --- Arabu Shuchōkoku Renpō --- Trucial States --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- E-books --- tourism, mobility, enclave, space of exception. --- Macau --- Arabu Shuchōkoku Renp --- Ittiḥād Imārāt al-Khalīj al-ʻArab --- United Arab Emirates