The great ports panic of 2006

Middle East Report

Volumn 38, Issue 248, 2008, Pages 40-44

  Smith, Benjamin ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; PORT OPERATION; PORT TRADE; TRADE RELATIONS;

ASIA; DUBAI [UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 54249165945     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. See, for example, the CBS News polls on the Dubai ports controversy (http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll•sh_022706.pdf) and Hurricane Katrina (http://wwww.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/poll_katrina_022706.pdf). For trends in Bush's approval rating, see http://www.pollingreport.com/ BushJob.htm.
2. Paul Krugman, "Osama, Saddam and Ports," New York Times, February 24, 2006.
3. Thomas Friedman, "The Fast Eat the Slow," New York Times, February 2, 2001.
4. Gulf News, November 30, 2005.
5. New York Times, February 23, 2006.
6. New York Post, February 14, 2006.
7. Zim's letter is archived online at http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2006/images/03/ 02/zim.letter.final.pdf.
8. Frank Gaffney, Jr., "Peril in Port," New York Sun, February 15, 2006.
9. Washington Post, February 23, 2006.
10. Tim Jon Semmerling, "Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2006), p. 16.
11. Ibid., p. 83.
12. Jeremy Williams, Don't They Know It's Friday? Cross-Cultural Considerations for Business and Life in the Gulf (Dubai: Motivate Publishing, 1998), p. 28.
13. Jehad al-Omari, The Arab Way: How to Work More Effectively with Arab Cultures (Oxford: How To Books, 2003), p. 185.
14. For arguments to this effect, see Leonard Nevarez, New Money, Nice Town: How Capital Works in the New Urban Economy (London: Routledge, 2002).