There is no country in the Arab world looking as safe and stable as the UAE right now, and its ruling families like it that way.
But that does not mean the country is immune to the wave of unrest that has washed across the Arab world in the last two months, with citizens from Morocco to Yemen asking forceful questions of their rulers like never before.
In the UAE, the most pressing political question facing the country's rulers is the broad inequality in development between the commercial and political hubs of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, and the far less-developed "Northern Emirates" of Ras al-Khaimah, Fujairah, Ajman and Umm al-Quwain. Quiet tension has long been building over the gap between the have and have-not emirates of the UAE, and tensions have grown since Abu Dhabi began its turbo-charged development drive in the last decade.
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