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I also show that most political unrest in the region since 2010 has been rooted in outsider grievances. The GCC “social contract” and the Gulf rentier state are undergoing fundamental change.

Outsiders face unemployment or much more precarious and worse paid (non-elite) jobs in the private sector. Drawing on political economy theories of dual labour markets, I tease out the political interests and cleavages resulting from this division.