Between Economic Diversification and Nation-Branding: The UAE's Pivot to Asia and Innovation Strategies in the Post-Zayed Era

Jeong, Hae Won

doi:10.1353/gss.2020.0025

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“…These strategies rest on expanding significant bilateral technological partnerships and corporations with innovative global leaders in Asia, namely South Korea, Hong Kong, China and Japan. The main areas that witnessed extensive collaborations in the past decade are nuclear energy, aerospace and artificial intelligence investments (Jeong, 2020). In sum, after years of having its foreign policy eyes on the West, the UAE directs its new economic diplomacy and soft power towards the Far East to successfully implement its innovation-driven diversification strategies.…”

Section: Four Decades Of Diversification Experience: the Case Of The Uaementioning

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From diversification resistance to sustainable diversification: lessons from the UAE's public policy shift

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Khalid

2022

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PurposeThis paper critically analyses major shifts in the UAE's public and economic policy, particularly examining the transition from oil dependency to diversification and then to sustainability and resilience. It aims to provide insight into the facilitators, inhibitors and future of sustainable development in the UAE.Design/methodology/approachThe paper reviews evidence on diversification resistance, the resource trap and sustainable development, and draws attention to the dynamics of policy reform in the UAE, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic.FindingsThe findings of this study indicate that not all patterns of diversification result in sustainable development and resilient economies. The evidence also suggests that achieving sustainable and resilient growth does not necessarily come at the cost of economic prosperity. After decades of extraordinary diversification, the UAE's economic policy has undergone a paradigm shift. Years of fluctuating oil revenues, increasingly globalised markets, environmental obligations and significant recent structural changes in energy markets have paved the way for a new emphasis on sustainable diversification and economic resilience.Originality/valueThe paper provides novel insight on the UAE's transition to a sustainable and resilient economy and contributes to the current public policy debate about the future of economic policies in the UAE on sustainable diversification initiatives and the trade-offs that emerge from embracing sustainable diversification and economic resilience goals.

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Section: Four Decades Of Diversification Experience: the Case Of The Uaementioning

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“…As Jeong (2020) argues, the shift to innovation serves two goals. First, it is needed for the new “branding” of the gulf state, once and still known for its significant oil wealth.…”

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From diversification resistance to sustainable diversification: lessons from the UAE's public policy shift

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2022

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Between Economic Diversification and Nation-Branding: The UAE's Pivot to Asia and Innovation Strategies in the Post-Zayed Era

Cited by 4 publications

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From diversification resistance to sustainable diversification: lessons from the UAE's public policy shift

From diversification resistance to sustainable diversification: lessons from the UAE's public policy shift

Reconciling “Third Wave” SSC with Emirati and Chinese Infrastructure Endeavours in Djibouti

The Focus and Evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility in the United Arab Emirates

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