@article{723070,
      recid = {723070},
      author = {Ramady, M. A.},
      title = {Political, economic and financial country risk analysis of  the Gulf Cooperation Council / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxii, 281 pages) :},
      abstract = {Decades go by and nothing happens; then weeks go by and  decades happen. This apt saying encapsulates the dramatic  convulsions taking place across the Arab world that first  erupted in 2011 in Tunisia and which rapidly spread to  other countries. These events have affected the lives of  ordinary citizens in many more ways than had been intended  when the "Arab Spring" broke out, with the endgame still  not very clear as demonstrated in countries like Egypt,  Syria and Libya. By comparison, with some exceptions, the  six countries comprising the Gulf Cooperation Council have  been relatively unaffected by the general turbulence and  uncertainties lapping around them. However, geopolitical  shifts involving global superpower rivalries, combined with  revolutionary breakthroughs in the non-conventional  hydrocarbon energy sector are threatening to challenge the  importance of the Arabian Gulf as the world's leading  suppliers of energy, putting their economies under fiscal  stress.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/723070},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02177-5},
}