ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses "Global Sixties" involved various forces calling for drastic change and considers one of those changes—decolonization. It discusses status quo ante—the situation of the Gulf in the early 1960s. The chapter examines the subversive forces that challenged the British presence. It explains what made Britain leave the Gulf and what decided the composition of the postcolonial states. The chapter describes if anyone, was denied the right to achieve independence. It suggests that various subversive movements did put considerable pressure on the British presence in what later became the United Arab Emirates and its surrounding region, but their effect on the British decision to withdraw from the region was indirect at most. The political change was essentially a pro-status quo reconfiguration of local hierarchies to fit the global order. If there was decolonization, it was an un-revolutionary decolonization.
