PAUL AARTS Department of Political Science, University of AmsterdamKHALID M. ABDALLA Department of Economics, University of Bahrain, ManamaOSAMA SAAD AHMED Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Manama, BahrainBAQUER SALMAN AL-NAJAR Department of Sociology, Manama University of BahrainFATIMA S. AL-SHAMSI Department of Sociology, Manama University of BahrainELEANOR DOUMATO Department of Economics, University of United Arab Emirates, UAEADIL OSMAN GEBRIEL Consultant, Amsterdam, NetherlandsCHARLOTTE HEATH Department for International Development, LondonSERGE HERZOG Ministry of Defence, Geneva, Switzerland

• INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Change and Development in the Gulf: An Overview of Major Issues; A. Abdelkarim Oil, Population Change and Social Development in the Gulf: Some Major Trends and Indicators; A. Abdelkarim PART ONE: OIL AND THE ECONOMY: DEPENDENCE AND DIVERSIFICATION The State in Oil Rentier Economies: the Case of Bahrain; K. Abdalla Industrial Strategies and Change in UAE During the 1980s; F. Al-Shamsi Diversification Through Industrialization: The Saudi Experience; O. Ahmed PART TWO: HUMAN RESOURCES AND GENDER RELATIONS Population Policies in the Countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council; B. Al-Najar Overview of Major Issues in the Development of National Human Resources; A. Gebriel Women, Income Generation and Gender Relations in Rural Oman; C. Heath The Saudis and the Gulf War: Gender, Power and the Revival of the Religious Rights; E. Doumato PART THREE: POLITICAL CHANGE AND MILITARIZATION: IMPACT OF GULF WAR Post-War Kuwait and the Process of Democratization: The Persistency of Political Tribalism; P. Aarts Arms, Oil and Security in the Gulf; S. Herzog Index