Resumen de Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers: the Rise of the Arab Gulf
There have certainly been some procedural successes for the GCC, typically centered around unifying taxes and tariffs (sensibly discussed in Chapter 5), but Miller extends the point arguing that "at crucial moments, when their sovereignty has been threatened ... the GCC states have closed ranks, put their grievances and national ambitions on hold, and chiselled out a united response in the political, economic and military realms" (p. 10). Though this last point is well made, and Miller's wider point about how GCC states "think nationally and short term, and not regionally and long term" (p. 273) is a nice aphoristic notion, the reader may find this overall argument confusing.
