Aufsatz(gedruckt)#331962001
Les transformations d'une cité-marchande: Doubai͏ 1971-2001: Impact global et dynamique interne
In: Monde arabe: Maghreb - Machrek, Heft 174, S. 70-74
ISSN: 0336-6324, 1241-5294
Created in 1971 as a merchant city trading with Asia and the Middle East, the state of Dubai, which has almost no oil reserves, has tried to become a commercial and financial hub, and a storage and transit zone for people, goods and capital. Steady application of its approach has enriched it, although politically the state was based on the federation of the United Arab Emirates. Since 1990, it has made huge efforts to maintain its mercantile identity and to become the electronic capital of the Middle East. But its global city status has been shaken by the crisis in Afghanistan, which was one of its main customers. (Monde Arabe Maghreb/DÜI)
