Topic+16A+RAFT+27A+Describe+the+Major+events+and+forces+in+the+Middle+East+over+the+last+several+decades.++A.+the+weakness+and+fragility+of+the+oil-rich+Persian+Gulf+states,+including+Saudi+Arabia,+Kuwait,+and+others

Topic 16A RAFT 27A Describe the Major events and forces in the Middle East over the last several decades. A. the weakness and fragility of the oil-rich Persian Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and others:

Kuwait is small but very rich in oil. They do not have a strong government or army to protect them so they were vulnerable to attacks from Iraq.

Thee Persian Gulf and its coastal areas are the world's largest single source of crude oil and related industries dominate the region.

One very important thing is that Kuwait is rich in oil, they are able to defend themselves because of their very good army.

The governments of the Persian gulf states have been weakened by terrorism, war, and weak governments, which leave them open to attack by surrounding countries.

In the 1960's Kuwait created a program to protect their oil preserves from future exhaustion.

Kuwait is a small country and rich in oil but strong in military forces but they have a weak governments so they are open for attacks.

Kuwait, an oil-rich country, had a very weak army and government which left them open for attacks from any of the surrounding countries like Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia to list only a few.

Kuwait is a very small country that doesn't have a strong army to protect all of the oil that they collect.

Saudi Arabia is very corrupt due to an inter family rivalry that includes brothers and sons succeeding the throne for many years.

Saudi Arabia is an oil-rich country even though a lot of it is desert land.

Kuwait is a small rich oil country that had a strong army but a weak government.

Kuwait is a tiny country that is rich in oil deposits, and all thought they are wealthy because of oil all of that could change form an attack on their weak government from any neighboring country.

In much of the Muslim world, secularization has proceeded through the modernizing mechanisms of the region's various states. By contrast, social movements committed to the (re)introduction of religion into public and political life have frequently functioned through appeals to the popular will. Recent political events in Turkey present a dramatic contrast to this historically established antagonism between secularization and populist politics. In the spring of 2007 a series of mass demonstrations, rallied in the name of secularism and against the elected Islamic regime, were conducted in several of Turkey's major urban centers. The figure of the secularist crowd provides an image of secularism grounded not in the coercive apparatuses of the military and the modernizing bureaucracy but in an assertion of populism. This article explores the tentative formation of a secular populism. I argue that this particular conjuncture not only displays the persistent contradictions that subtend the relationship between secularism and populist politics but also reveals the tensions that sustain the field of democratic politics in Turkey.

Almost all of the Middle East countries are very prosperous. This is due to the great amount of oil found there, which is a necessity for almost every person (using it for heat, using it for your car). However, if their luck with oil fails, the countries' economies could also fail.

Saudi Arabia has had a strong diplomatic relationship with the United States even with all of the turmoil in the Middle East during the early 21st Century.

Many of the countries that have come rich do to massive amount of natural oil lack a strong enough based government to not leave the country abandoned and corrupt.

The unemployment rate in Saudi Arabia is extremely high.

Kuwait is very small, and oil rich. They have a strong military, which is good against terrorism attacks!

There is much competition between the Persian Gulf states and oil. One year Kuwait produced 90 billion barrels of oil, and Iran tried to come up with even more, but Saddam Hussein made the most with 100 billion barrels.

Kuwait is very small, but very rich in oil. They do not have a strong government or army to protect them so they were in danger when they were attacked by Iraq.