Dubai and the United Arab Emirates
Security Threats
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12534210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Davidson (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, corresponding author), Christopher M Davidson |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 431-447 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-0194 • E-ISSN: 1469-3542 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13530190903338953 |
| OpenAlex | W2066535912 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) wealthiest emirate, Abu Dhabi, has \nbuilt up the UAE Armed Forces in recent decades by procuring some of the finest \nmilitary hardware available. This has provided the UAE with a strong defence \nshield and has undoubtedly reduced the threat of foreign invasion. However, the \nUAE’s hard security capabilities are either insufficient or inappropriate for \ncountering remaining regional threats from Iran or, to a lesser extent, other Arab states. As such, the UAE has had little option but to remain under a Western military umbrella. Moreover, as an unfortunate but perhaps inescapable hidden cost of its emergence as the region’s premier free port, for many years the UAE’s second wealthiest emirate of Dubai has attracted the attention of both international \ncriminal and terrorist organisations, many of which have exploited the emirate’s laissez-faire attitudes and impressive physical infrastructure to set up various smuggling, gun-running, human-trafficking, and money-laundering operations. Despite Dubai’s undoubted usefulness to such groups, the final section of this article will reveal that the UAE has been unable to remain completely in the eye of the storm and has suffered from a number of terrorist attacks on its own soil
Abu dhabi · Business · Computer security · Geography · International trade · Political science · Port (circuit theory · Terrorism · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Socioeconomic Development in MENA
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |