Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

Christopher Davidson

August, 2008
Cloth, 320 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70034-4
$32.50

"This is the best study of Dubai that I have read and an important contribution to the still meager literature on the extraordinary formation that is the United Arab Emirates. Especially interesting is the book's discussion of the emirates' founding under British rule and the continuing influence of this imperial history on its politics and society; the imported character of its 'Arab' identity; and the regional context that informs everything from security concerns to demography." — Faisal Devji, New School University, and author of Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity

"Davidson traces Dubai's rise from sleepy Gulf port to player on the world scene." — Christopher Hawthorne , Los Angeles Times

Related Subjects

• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Christopher M. Davidson is a fellow of the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Durham University. He is a former assistant professor of political science at Sheikh Zayed University in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and the author of The United Arab Emirates: A Study in Survival.

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