Chris Davidson | What has the Arab Spring Achieved?

Описание: Christopher Davidson speaks about the Gulf Monarchies to the Oxford Union Society.
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Chris Davidson speaks about predictions of the future of the 6 Gulf Monarchies, and the history of political and social change in the Gulf States. He talks of how different rulers have reacted to the oil wealth and the domino effects of allowing or blocking modernisation in the Arab States.
Filmed on Monday 28th January 2013

ABOUT CHRISTOPHER DAVIDSON:
Author of 'The Vulnerability of Success' which was named Book of The Year by both the New Statesman and the London Evening Standard. His new book, 'After The Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies', has been listed as one of Foreign Policy's Top Ten Books on the Middle East from 2012

ABOUT THE OXFORD UNION SOCIETY:
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