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The article offers the author's insights on the strategic implications of Arabs' reawakening, which is occurring across North Africa and West Asia. He says that the period of foreign protectorates in the regions have been gone and this leads to uncertainties on the future. He states that the short-term effects of these uncertainties include higher gas and oil prices, slower recovery from America's Great Recession, and accelerated transfer of global wealth to East and South Asia's rising powers.

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This examination of the processes which culminated in the signing of the first oil concessions on the Trucial Coast constitutes a case study of the interaction between political and commercial interests within Britain's informal empire. It looks at the extent to which the aims and approaches of the British political authorities and of the oil company overlapped, coincided or conflicted, and at the strategies adopted by both in their dealings with the third element in the negotiations, the local rulers. In addition, the nature, extent and variations of local collaboration are analysed. Finally, the outcomes of the negotiations are reconsidered, and the possibility raised that a qualified form of collaboration might achieve satisfactory results for a local ruler, despite the overwhelming odds stacked against him. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This provides a detailed explanation of how the Indian Empire was organised and run. But its main purpose is to argue that the British Indian Empire was in fact much larger than historians of the Raj normally realise because the Empire should be taken to include the Gulf Arab states, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan, the Aden Protectorate and the British Somaliland protectorate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]