Publications

The Center for International and Regional Studies publishes various types of research throughout the academic year, including:

• Occasional Papers
• Annual Reports
• Newsletters
• Books
• Summary Reports
• Briefs
• Arabic Language Publications

Through its publications, CIRS provides in-depth examination of ideas and issues of contemporary academic and political significance.

By submitting work to CIRS, the author agrees to the following Copyright Agreement.
 

Publication Highlights
 

"Transformations of Regional Economic Governance in the Gulf Cooperation Council" is authored by Fred H. Lawson of Mills College. This paper lays out a typology that can be used to elucidate crucial differences across regional formations in the contemporary Arab world, and also to highlight significant changes in the kind and level of governance that take place in any particular regionalist experiment. The utility of the framework is demonstrated through an analysis of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). 

"Workforce Nationalization in the Gulf Cooperation Council States" is a first attempt to review all six GCC nations. Kasim Randeree takes an exploratory-cum-constructivist approach and argues that closer cooperation and unified policy structures on nationalization are needed across all GCC countries. Education, training, the transfer of knowledge from expatriate to citizen, better approaches to encouraging citizens into the private sector, and the greater inclusion of women are all significant issues that need to be tackled in order to fulfill the desired goal of nationalizing the labor force across all GCC states.

 
 

“The Nuclear Question in the Middle East” research initiative takes a comprehensive and expansive look at the nuclear issue across the Middle East region. During working group meetings, CIRS engaged with a number of academics and specialists who were invited to contribute individual chapters to a book on The Nuclear Question in the Middle East (Columbia University Press/Hurst, 2012).

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Zahra Babar, Project Manager at CIRS, is the author of "Free Mobility within the Gulf Cooperation Council."  This paper questions how normative debates on the freedom of movement apply to the GCC. It examines the policy and practice of strictly managing the movement of international migrants while at the same time freeing up movement for citizenry. 

Matthew Gray is author of the seventh CIRS Occasional Paper titled, "A Theory of 'Late Rentierism' in the Arab States of the Gulf." The paper argues that Rentier State Theory (RST) has not adapted enough to explain the dramatic changes in the political economies of the Gulf in the past two decades.

* CIRS participates in the 2010 Doha International Book Fair