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1 جملس التعاون اخلليجي ودوره يف تعزيز التنمية االقتصادية والعسكرية بني دول اخلليج العربي ) ( Abstract The historical roots dating back to the founding of the Gulf Cooperation Council to the seventies of the twentieth century and the impact of the British withdrawal from the Arabian Gulf in 1971, which left a security vacuum in the region and this vacuum will lead to instability and a chance for a conflict of great powers for control of the region and interfering in their countries affairs, so deliberately Arab Gulf states to unite their efforts at various levels, especially when it is similar among them a lot of things are common such as history and geographic reach, customs and traditions and common culture, and found that in unity the way which helps in particular the challenges and threats that surround them survive, all of these things been bound in the end to establish a board Gulf cooperation on 25 May 1981 Key word:gulf Cooperation Council Arabian Gulf states Middle East- Twentieth Century- British Withdrawal- Geographic reach- Common Culture 478

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16 Hassan Al Ebraheem, Kuwait and the Gulf Small State and International System Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., Croom Helm, London and Canberra, 1984, p. 62. Alvin J. Cittrell, The Persian Gulf States (A General Survey), 6 th Johns Hopkins University press, Paltimore and London, 1980, pp

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18 Quaterly Economic Review of Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the Yemen's Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), 1 st Quarter Ali Mohammad Khalifa, The United Arab Emirates : Unity in Fragmentation, London, 1979, pp Rosemarie Said Zahlan, The Making of the Modern Gulf states, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman, London, 1998, p Abdul Reda, Assiri, Kuwait Foreign, city state in world politics, London, 1990, p

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20 George T. Abed and Hamid R. Davoodi, Challenges of Growth and Globalization in the Middle East and North Africa, New York, 2003, p. 3. Frik R. Peterson, The Gulf Cooperation Council : Search for Unity in Dynamic Region Boulder. Colo. Westview Press, 1988, pp Allen Calvin. H, Oman the Modernization of the Sultanate, London, 1984, p

21 Ramazani (Rik), The Cooperation Council : Record And Analysis, Charlottes Vius, University Press of Virginia, 1988, pp

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27 (1) Abdul Reda, Assiri, Kuwait Foreign, city state in world politics, London, (2) Ali Mohammad Khalifa, The United Arab Emirates : Unity in Fragmentation, London, (3) Allen Calvin. H, Oman the Modernization of the Sultanate, London, (4) Alvin J. Cittrell, The Persian Gulf States (A General Survey), 6 th Johns Hopkins University press, Paltimore and London, (5) Frik R. Peterson, The Gulf Cooperation Council : Search for Unity in Dynamic Region Boulder. Colo. Westview Press, (6) George T. Abed and Hamid R. Davoodi, Challenges of Growth and Globalization in the Middle East and North Africa, New York, (7) Hassan Al Ebraheem, Kuwait and the Gulf Small State and International System Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., Croom Helm, London and Canberra, (8) Quaterly Economic Review of Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the Yemen's Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), 1 st Quarter (9) Ramazani (Rik), The Cooperation Council : Record And Analysis, Charlottes Vius, University Press of Virginia, (10) Rosemarie Said Zahlan, The Making of the Modern Gulf states, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman, London,

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