caa a22 4500 386370508 CHVBK 20180307111956.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800032104 doi S0020743800032104 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800032104 An Assessment of the Tr'ade and Restructuring Effects of the Gulf Co-Operation Council [Elektronische Daten] During the last three decades, there has been an increasing drive in developing countries towards integration, characterized by an equally apparent tendency towards the institutionalization of this attitude. This is a direct result of the realization that their future development as well as their ability to break the vicious circle of their dependence on the developed world depend on the extent of their success in attaining collective self-reliance. It was this realization and the futility of past integration efforts that motivated the six Arab Gulf countries of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to establish in 1981 the Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC) in an attempt to find a common basis on which economic development could be carried out on a regional basis. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Cain Michael Department of Economics Al-Badri Kais S. The University College of Walls International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 21/1(1989-02), 57-69 0020-7438 21:1<57 1989 21 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800032104 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800032104 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cain Michael Department of Economics NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Al-Badri Kais S. The University College of Walls NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 21/1(1989-02), 57-69 0020-7438 21:1<57 1989 21 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge