The Origins of the United Arab Emirates

Zahlan, Rosemarie Said

doi:10.4324/9781315629643

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“…The UAE is strategically located along the Asia-Europe trade route. A rich body of historical literature has noted the impact of British colonial policies on the emergence of the UAE as a key transport node along Asia-Europe colonial trade routes (Zahlan 1978, 'Abd Allāh 1978, Heard-Bey 1982, Naqīb 1990). Building on this role, the UAE invested substantially in expanding its transport sector through the 1970s and 80s, focusing on mega transport infrastructures, including maritime ports and airports, as well as airlines, port operators, and free trade zones, enabling it to become a major regional trade gateway and a re-export zone (Ziadah 2017).…”

Section: Uae Food Security: Policy and Practicementioning

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Logistics of the neoliberal food regime: circulation, corporate food security and the United Arab Emirates

Henderson

Ziadah

2022

New Political Economy

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A growing body of literature acknowledges that the Gulf Cooperation Council's demand for food is met through a set of commodity chains that span the regional and global economy. But the development of national corporate food security strategies premised on the consolidation of logistical networks and food commodity chains has not been sufficiently explored. This paper is concerned with the United Arab Emirates' footprint on the regional and international food regime, and the state's production as a regional hub for agri-food trade. We trace the ways the UAE's corporate food security strategy utilises the private sector, agribusiness and logistics firms, alongside military power, to achieve so-called food security. We bring the literature on food regimes and logistics space into dialogue to explore the UAE's food security policy as a strategy to consolidate power over agro-commodity production and distribution networks.

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Section: Uae Food Security: Policy and Practicementioning

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Logistics of the neoliberal food regime: circulation, corporate food security and the United Arab Emirates

Henderson

Ziadah

2022

New Political Economy

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“…The modern UAE nation state emerges as a node in British colonial networks owing to its position along the trade route with India. Its current governance arrangements and borders, based on hereditary, tribal ruling families in each of the seven Emirates, was indeed cemented through the 'trucial system' of 1835 establishing a British protectorate, whereby power was centralised with British allied sheikhs (Heard-Bey, 1982;Peck, 1986;Zahlan, 1978). Colonial legacies continue in the legal and administrative structures of the state, including the UAE's discursive production as a free-trade haven open for investment and trade.…”

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Surveillance, race, and social sorting in the United Arab Emirates

Ziadah

2021

Politics

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has made headlines for its use of mass surveillance technologies against UAE residents, as well as opponents externally. Under the guise of protecting national security, there has been a proliferation of state-led initiatives to monitor public spaces and online activity across the UAE, making the country an important laboratory for advanced surveillance tools. This article takes as a starting point that despite claims to being race-neutral and scientific, surveillance technologies have an embedded racial bias and operate according to context to (re)produce forms of state control and racial social relations. Reviewing the introduction of multiple surveillance technologies, this article traces the rationales used to racially order space and define deviance in the UAE context, emphasising questions of race, migration status and labour, to understand how the state defines, codifies, and regulates an ethno-racial hierarchy.

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Human Resource Management in the United Arab Emirates: Towards a Better Understanding

Khassawneh

Abaker

2022

HRM in the Global South

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The Origins of the United Arab Emirates

Cited by 7 publications

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Logistics of the neoliberal food regime: circulation, corporate food security and the United Arab Emirates

Logistics of the neoliberal food regime: circulation, corporate food security and the United Arab Emirates

Surveillance, race, and social sorting in the United Arab Emirates

Human Resource Management in the United Arab Emirates: Towards a Better Understanding

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