Here's another post. I first had it posted in it's own thread, but it's probably more suitable here:
Davidson on Dubai - Middle East Report Summer 2009
(Thanks Cuppa!)
From the Middle East Report issue 251 of Summer 09 written by Christopher M. Davidson, a senior lecturer in the School of Government and International Aff airs at Durham University. Mr Davidson is the author of Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success (Columbia University Press, 2008).
This article is very well researched and very neutral in it's findings and thus quite contrary to the usual "dark side" drivel in the UK papers. It contains quite new and previously unreported findings about the so called "bail out" by the Abu Dhabi emirate and the state of the Dubai finances in early summer 2009.
Also Mr. Davidson has written a very interesting book about Dubai, I'd like to include a link this as well:
Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success, Amazon.com