Qatar: Small State, Big Politics

The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran Kamrava...

• | By (Author): Mehran Kamrava
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 23, 2015
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0801456770
• | ISBN-13: 9780801456770