{"id":1791,"date":"2014-11-19T06:52:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T11:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2014-11-19T06:52:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T11:52:49","slug":"report-finds-gulf-states-unstable-despite-resource-wealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1791","title":{"rendered":"Report Finds Gulf States Unstable Despite Resource Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oilprice.com\/Geopolitics\/Middle-East\/Report-Finds-Gulf-States-Unstable-Despite-Resource-Wealth.html\">Report Finds Gulf States Unstable Despite Resource Wealth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Sectarian and ethnic tension, religious violence, and terrorism threats appear to be rising trends in the Gulf region according to\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #24606c; text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/csis.org\/publication\/gulf-security-stability-and-terrorism-country-rankings?utm_source=Gulf+Security%2C+Stability%2C+and+Terrorism%3A+Country+Rankings&amp;utm_campaign=The+Air+War+Against+the+Islamic+State%3A+The+Need+for+an+%22Adequacy+of+Resources%22&amp;utm_medium=email\">a new study<\/a>\u00a0on the state of security in the Gulf by the\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #24606c; text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/csis.org\/\">Center for Strategic and International Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The 200-plus page report released last week was prepared by veteran analyst\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #24606c; text-decoration: underline; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/csis.org\/expert\/anthony-h-cordesman\">Anthony H. Cordesman<\/a>from CSIS, a highly respected Washington, DC, think tank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">The report notes the alarming rise of politicized Islam in the Arab world. Even in Saudi Arabia, the so-called Islamic State has found many followers in spite of the fact that the self-proclaimed caliphate does not recognize Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">Also highlighted in the report is a profound consolidation of governmental power with little to no participation by the ordinary citizen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 1em; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report Finds Gulf States Unstable Despite Resource Wealth. Sectarian and ethnic tension, religious violence, and terrorism threats appear to be rising trends in the Gulf region according to\u00a0a new study\u00a0on the state of security in the Gulf by the\u00a0Center for Strategic and International Studies. The 200-plus page report released last week was prepared by veteran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[1245,1243,522,1244],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-arab-world","tag-gulf-states","tag-middle-east","tag-resource-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}