خلاصة:
One of the common features of Persian Gulf countries is the same historical destiny which comes from colonization, religion, tradition and the common culture which have influenced the political structures of these countries. To this end, in the recent decades, lack of democracy in this region is highly considered by the thinkers. With development of international communications, some of these countries felt the need of a change in order to save their governments and started some reforms in their structures yet these reforms were not deep and strong and had no acceptable results. Therefore, the thinkers believe that a western democracy appearance in this region is impossible because of the cultural, economical and political context. Also, with the appearance of globalization need and development of communication, virtual press and satellites and the change of Middle Eastern people‟s view about lifestyle; the new tendencies made some of these countries make policies for liberty of internet and others against it and starting the filtering. It seems that this increases the gaps between governments and people in this region. Therefore, this research studies the barriers of having democracy in this region with a descriptive-analytical method.
ملخص الجهاز:
"2) Globalization effects on establishment of democratic perspectives and demands in Arab states of the Persian Gulf: development and growth of social and communicational networks has familiarized the people of these countries with new phenomena across the world and also with the civil society of other countries and international organizations.
3) Globalization effect on politicization of racial-ethnic identities in Arab states of the Persian Gulf: the globalization phenomenon and consequently development of the communicational space have threatened or even removed the economic, cultural, informational or even political borders of countries.
It is true that the globalization phenomena causes economic growth and improvement of the living condition and public state of people‟s life and cultivation of democracy; on the other hand, the globalization phenomenon leads to increase of unemployment, economic inequity, political instability, return to governmental economy, economic downturn and consequently fading out of the role of democratic institutions.
5) Internet impact as one of the globalization indices on the factor of increasing social awareness and human development in Arab societies of the Persian Gulf: a Finnish researcher named Thomas Haag expresses in a study: internet provides various modern solutions for political activities of people and for their contribution in it, still, democracy flows in the real world, not in the virtual one – based on reports, human development index ratio in Iraq in 1998 were 53% and it had the rank 126th in the global scale."