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This volume brings to fruition the second phase of the Centre for Policy Research Project on Regional Cooperation for Development. The papers edited and collected for this volume were presented at athree-day seminar held at the CPR in March 1986.

The ten papers presented in this volume cover almost all the major aspects of the political economy of the countries in the Persian Gulf region and explore present and future prospects of developmental cooperation between these countries and South Asia.

Bhabani Sen Gupta was Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and foreign affairs columnist for a leading newsmagazine, India Today. He has been Senior Fellow and Head of the Disarmament Studies Division, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Senior Fellow for six years at the School of International Affairs, Columbia University, New York; a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow for the Study of International Conflict; and a consultant to the Human Rights Commission and the UN Disarmament Commission.