Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

Arno Tausch is a Honorary Associate Professor of Economics, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary (since Fall Semester 2010) and Adjunct Professor (Universitaetsdozent) of political science at Innsbruck University, Department of Political Science, Innsbruck University, Austria (since 1988). He served as an Austrian diplomat abroad and was attaché, and later counselor for labor and migration at the Austrian Embassy in Warsaw, 1992-1999. He authored or coauthored books and articles for major international publishers and journals, among them 22 books in English, 2 books in French, 8 books in German, and around 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and also numerous articles in the media of several countries.