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title: "Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success"
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# Same-day dispatch before noon Rapid post-oil growth Metropolis of 2M+ people Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

**Price:** ₨20595
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## Summary

> 🏙️ Unlock the secrets behind Dubai’s dazzling ascent — don’t miss the story everyone’s talking about!

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- **What is this?** Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success
- **How much does it cost?** ₨20595 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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- • **From Pearl Fishing to Global Powerhouse:** Discover Dubai’s meteoric rise from humble origins to a world-class trading hub.
- • **Architectural Marvels & Economic Innovation:** Explore how visionary strategies shaped a futuristic cityscape and diversified economy.
- • **Political Stability Meets Socio-Economic Challenges:** Understand the delicate balance behind Dubai’s success and its evolving reforms.

## Overview

Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success offers an insightful exploration of Dubai’s transformation from a modest fishing village to a thriving global metropolis. This detailed study highlights the emirate’s innovative economic strategies, political stability, and the complex socio-political challenges it faces as it continues to attract international investment and attention.

## Description

"Dubai" is a remarkable success story. From its origins as a small fishing and pearling community, the emirate has gone from strength to strength, having established itself as the premier trading entrepot of the Arabian Gulf and, in more recent years, having boomed into a massive metropolis of some two or more million people, most of whom are expatriates engaged in an increasingly diversified economy that has become synonymous with startling and innovative architecture. Following a detailed historical background, Davidson's in-depth study demonstrates how Dubai's pioneering post-oil development strategies were implemented against a carefully managed backdrop of near complete political stability, despite the lack of democratisation and genuine civil society.He then addresses the problems that may surface as the need for sustained foreign direct investment encourages far-reaching socio-economic reforms, many of which may affect the ideological, religious, and cultural legitimacy of the traditional monarchy. He also analyses Dubai's awkward relationship with its federal partners in the United Arab Emirates, before highlighting some of the hidden costs of being the region's most successful free port - namely its attractiveness to international criminal fraternities, the global black money economy and terrorist networks.

Review: All good - All good
Review: Three Stars - Average

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | 123,248 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 10 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ All good
*by R***5 on 21 October 2015*

All good

### ⭐⭐⭐ Three Stars
*by Y***R on 10 September 2014*

Average

### ⭐ I want my money back
*by S***2 on 1 August 2011*

What could be a thoroughly absorbing overview of the development of Dubai is thoroughly let down by an infuriating lack of 'live' footnote links. This is not the first non-fiction Kindle purchase I have made but it IS the first which does not allow one to refer to indexing, references or footnoting while reading. I feel like I am missing out on a good deal of information and certainly a great deal of enjoyment because I cannot check footnotes against the text. I tried it once and it took several minutes to find the reference [far longer than it takes with a hard copy book]. For the Kindle price I have paid I feel absolutely ripped off and almost unable to go on [I am only in Chapter One now]. And I am inclined to feel I should purchase another copy -- a 'real' book this time -- so I might gain the insight I need and which the author deserves. Amazon Media should be ashamed of themselves. This is really shoddy work. For an example of how to get it right, look to Robert Lacey's 'The Kingdom'; not only a great read but actually footnoted properly. This book? It's been scanned and lazily sold on to unwitting customers on the basis that it is a real Kindle book when it is nothing but a silly photocopy, a photocopy that comes withOUT notes. Must do better. Much better. Other reviewers have given this book five stars. I wish I could.

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