Crackdown will complicate economic reform in the Gulf
Governments are intensifying collective security measures to protect themselves against perceived internal threats
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- Threat reassessment
- Internal security co-ordination
- Surveillance and information-sharing
- Pact comes into force
- Escalating domestic crackdowns
- Internet
- Islamists
- Citizenship
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