Download or read book Special Report Saudi Arabian Leadership Through COVID 19 written by Peter Howson and published by The Business Year. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication was compiled over the course of several months of interviews in Saudi Arabia after the COVID-19 outbreak. The pace of internal reform in the Kingdom has been significant over the past three-five years, and in many cases the old, low-tech, and sclerotic public service that had so long been a feature of Saudi Arabia was vastly changed when the pandemic arrived in Riyadh. Nonetheless, this virus has challenged the modernizing bureaucracy in the desert at a magnitude that no other event, be it war or reform, has even come close to doing.
Download or read book Saudi Arabia written by Christopher M. Blanchard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: (1) Recent Developments; (2) Background: Saudi Arabia (SA)-U.S. Relations, 1931-2001; 9/11 and its Aftermath; Recent Assessments; Terrorist Financing; (3) Congress. Interest in SA: U.S. Foreign Assist. to SA and Prohibitions; Counter-terrorism Assist.; BAE Corruption Inquiry; (4) Current Issues in U.S.-SA Relations; Mil. Cooperation: Counterterrorism; Al Qaeda; Combating Extremism; Arab-Israeli Conflict; SA-Palestinian Relations; SA Policy Priorities in Iraq; U.S.-SA Trade; U.S. Oil Imports and SA Policy; SA Boycott of Israel and WTO Membership; Human Rights, Religious Freedom, and Political Reform; Leadership and Succession; Social Reform Debates and Recent Leadership Changes; Human Rights; Religious Freedom.
Download or read book Global Trends 2040 written by National Intelligence Council and published by Cosimo Reports. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.
Download or read book Special Report Digital Kingdom written by and published by The Business Year. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business Year's latest report on the Saudi economy, Special Report: Digital Kingdom—How COVID-19 Changed the Conversation in Saudi Arabia, examines how COVID-19 accelerated digitalization efforts across the public and private sectors and better helped the kingdom see beyond oil and gas. This 112-page special report contains interviews with top business leaders from across the economy, as well as a range of news and analysis.
Download or read book Special Report Digital Innovation written by and published by The Business Year. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like countries the world over, Saudi Arabia has been transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. But while other nations simply adapted to the work-from-home model and embraced digital payment solutions more readily, Saudi Arabia undertook a fundamental overhaul of its national technology strategy. This report explores the countless digital innovations being integrated with daily life in Saudi Arabia, based on interviews with key contributors to the country’s technology ecosystem. This 29-page publication documents the historic adoption of technology that is transforming life in Saudi Arabia today. This publication is about adaptation. It is about the change that took place during the pandemic and about what that change has created in the post-pandemic era.
Download or read book Special Report Saudi Arabia Resilience Growth written by and published by The Business Year. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 56-page special report, one of a series examining the resilience of GCC economies in the face of COVID-19 and produced in partnership with Parsons, casts an eye across key sectors of the economy during this period, including transformative technologies, resources, logistics, education, and investment, drawing on the words of the businesspeople we have spoken with in recent months. It aims to paint a picture of the resilience of Saudi Arabia at this crucial time, as well as one of the country's potential fortunes in the post-COVID-19 environment.
Download or read book Special Report The Future of Finance in Saudi Arabia written by and published by The Business Year. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 92-page special report, featuring interviews, news, and analysis, navigates the major challenges, prospects, and trends that will guide the sector over the coming years. It features insights from the leading decision makers in the sector and seeks to be a reference for those wanting impactful information on investment opportunities in Saudi Arabia.
Download or read book Special Report The New Era written by and published by The Business Year. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this 116-page special report, we tell the story of the birth of a sector through the words of the figures who are busy trying to make it a success, including a number of foreign investors, heads of government authorities, and figures involved in the development of the well-known “gigaprojects” that are placing Saudi Arabia’s ambitions prominently into news feeds around the world. “Just the simple act of allowing public performance was the first drop of this big ripple effect,” said Ahmad M Alammary, a Saudi DJ better known locally as Baloo, the Chief Creative Officer of MDL-BEAST, an entertainment firm with deep roots in the music business. And it was a sentiment we heard throughout our time in the country. And now the starting gun has been fired, any-thing could happen.
Download or read book Special Report Morocco Exports written by and published by The Business Year. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 9-page special report, produced in partnership with ASMEX and AMDIE, examines Morocco's growing export basket, the impact of COVID-19, and the future of trade for the North African economy.
Download or read book The Dream Palace of the Arabs written by Fouad Ajami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Fouad Ajami, an acclaimed author and chronicler of Arab politics, comes a compelling account of how a generation of Arab intellectuals tried to introduce cultural renewals in their homelands through the forces of modernity and secularism. Ultimately, they came to face disappointment, exile, and, on occasion, death. Brilliantly weaving together the strands of a tumultuous century in Arab political thought, history, and poetry, Ajami takes us from the ruins of Beirut's once glittering metropolis to the land of Egypt, where struggle rages between a modernist impulse and an Islamist insurgency, from Nasser's pan-Arab nationalist ambitions to the emergence of an uneasy Pax Americana in Arab lands, from the triumphalism of the Gulf War to the continuing anguished debate over the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords. For anyone who seeks to understand the Middle East, here is an insider's unflinching analysis of the collision between intellectual life and political realities in the Arab world today.
Download or read book The Business Year Saudi Arabia 2021 written by and published by The Business Year. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the result of months of on-the-ground research at a time of unprecedented upheaval. Not only was Saudi Arabia already in the midst of an economic revolution aimed at diversifying away from oil and gas, but COVID-19 also upended the very way business is conducted, putting to the test many of the digitalization initiatives carried out in recent years. The pandemic thus served as a validation of many of Saudi Arabia's internal reforms. It also created massive opportunities for some of the nation's up-and-coming businesses. In this 246-page publication, we show how technology completely changed the Kingdom during the pandemic. Things will never be the same. It covers finance, payments and fintech, IT and digitalization, industry, water and energy, aviation and defense, transport and logistics, construction and real estate, agriculture, health, education, and tourism.
Download or read book Chaos Complexity and Leadership 2023 written by Şefika Şule Erçetin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Special Report Oman Energy Minerals written by and published by The Business Year. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at Oman's energy and minerals sector.
Download or read book Shifting Sands Essays On Sports And Politics In The Middle East And North Africa written by James Michael Dorsey and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle East and North Africa are experiencing the most fundamental transition in their post-colonial history. It is a transition that is changing the borders of nation states as well as their political and social structures. Conflicting visions of what those structures should look like have ensured that transition will take years, and these deep-seated differences have ensured that the transition process is volatile, brutal and bloody. The balance of power shifts like quicksand.Shifting Sands: Essays on Sports and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa is a compilation of essays that constitute a first stab at exploring the importance of sports in general and soccer in particular in the political, social and cultural development of the Middle East and North Africa since the beginning of the 20th century. In doing so, the book provides a new, fresh and unique perspective that contributes to understanding the turbulence sweeping the region that is fundamentally changing its geopolitics and political and social structures.
Download or read book Special Report Malaysia Middle East Ties written by and published by The Business Year. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about drastict changes to the world economy. Malaysia, however, is well positioned to seize new opportunities, including the reorientation of global supply chains, to bolster trade ties with regions around the world, with the Middle East standing out as a particular area of potential for inward and outward investment. This 29-page report, produced in partnership with MIDA, includes interviews, news, and analysis.
Download or read book Dictators and Autocrats written by Klaus Larres and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions. The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern "soft" or populist autocrats, who are in the process of transforming once fully democratic countries into autocratic states, including Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey, Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Narendra Modi in India, and Viktor Orbán in Hungary. The authors touch on a wide range of autocratic and dictatorial figures in the past and present, including present-day autocrats, such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, military leaders, and democratic leaders with authoritarian aspirations. They analyze the transition of selected autocrats from democratic or benign semi-democratic systems to harsher forms of autocracy, with either quite disastrous or more successful outcomes. An ideal reader for students and scholars, as well as the general public, interested in international affairs, leadership studies, contemporary history and politics, global studies, security studies, economics, psychology, and behavioral studies.
Download or read book Rage written by Bob Woodward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rage is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump’s head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans. In 17 on-the-record interviews with Woodward over seven volatile months—an utterly vivid window into Trump’s mind—the president provides a self-portrait that is part denial and part combative interchange mixed with surprising moments of doubt as he glimpses the perils in the presidency and what he calls the “dynamite behind every door.” At key decision points, Rage shows how Trump’s responses to the crises of 2020 were rooted in the instincts, habits and style he developed during his first three years as president. Revisiting the earliest days of the Trump presidency, Rage reveals how Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats struggled to keep the country safe as the president dismantled any semblance of collegial national security decision making. Rage draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand witnesses as well as participants’ notes, emails, diaries, calendars and confidential documents. Woodward obtained 25 never-seen personal letters exchanged between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who describes the bond between the two leaders as out of a “fantasy film.” Trump insists to Woodward he will triumph over Covid-19 and the economic calamity. “Don’t worry about it, Bob. Okay?” Trump told the author in July. “Don’t worry about it. We’ll get to do another book. You’ll find I was right.”
