Governance, human rights, and the case for political adaptation in the Gulf: issues in the EU-GCC political dialogue ; this paper is one of a series issuing from the work of the "Working Group for European Strategy towards the Gulf" which the mediterranean programme of the RSCAS has organised in co-operation with the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Bertelsmann Group of Policy Research at the Center of Applied Policy Research, University of Munich, no. 02