The Future of the Gulf Region: Value Change and Global Cycles

Chapter 1. Introduction: Factors affecting the Gulf's future.- Chapter 2. Methodology and data for assessing the effects of Global Cycles and Value Change on the Future of the Gulf Region.- Chapter 3. Covid-19 and the contours of the impending global crisis: Western meltdown, Gulf fallout?.- Chapter 4. Caught in the "Thucydides Trap"? Revisiting Kondratieff Waves, Warfare and World Security and their implications for the Gulf region.- Chapter 5. Learning from classical Arab writers: G-Zero and the cultural aspects of changing global leadership: rediscovering Ibn Khaldun's "Asabiyya" with the latest PEW Global Survey and World Values Survey data.- Chapter 6. Value change and patterns of development in the rich Arab countries.- Chapter 7. Antisemitism - the second contemporary pandemic and what the Gulf countries can do to overcome it.- Chapter 8. Saudi Arabia - Religion, gender and the desire for democracy.- Chapter 9. Executive Summary, Conclusions and Perspectives.