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Political Economy of Rentierism in the Middle East and Disruptions ...

The rentier state: The nation state and integration in the Arab World. ... The oil-driven nation building of the gulf states after the second world war.

The Gulf Cooperation Council States (GCC)1

Conse- quently, in the GCC countries, “a rentier mentality” emerged in which the government was not a political representative body, but rather ...

Innovation, Technology Transfer, and Endogenous Growth in the ...

In this context, “the rentier state” debate begins for the GCC countries (Anderson, 1987; Mahdavy, 1970). Natural gas and oil-rich countries ...

The Gulf States and the Arab Uprisings - The Web site cannot be found

Abdullah Baabood is director of the Gulf Studies Programme at Qatar. University. N. Janardhan is a UAE-based political analyst, honorary fellow of the.

Issue No. 25 : Occassional Paper - MEI

Together, these studies have yielded important insights into the institutional constructions of GCC states, such as the political and economic dangers of state ...

GCC Countries as "Rentier States" Revisited / Review ... - CORE

describe and analyze the political economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states. The very title of the flagship volume edited by Luciani ...

THE POLITICS OF DIVERSION Bridging troubled waters ... - IRC Wash

The impact of rentier income on political relations in state. • and region is ... -, 'Gulf states shun Turkish 'peace", World Water and Environ- mental ...

Corruption, rentier states and economic growth: Where do the GCC ...

We consider in this study the Gulf Cooperation Countries as endowed with huge natural resources while considering the potential role of ...

No Representation without Taxation? Rents, development and ...

The Gulf states ... Rentiers tend to be located in regions where states, rentier or not, typically suffer from generally unsatisfactory political.

Politics of English in the Arabian Gulf

... public sector which is sometimes blamed for economic and developmental stagnation (over-inflated wages; rentier state model). Two studies on Emiratization ...

THE NEW POLITICS OF INTERVENTION OF GULF ARAB STATES

Nonneman's very prescient analysis of GCC foreign policy from 2003 notes that small ... 10 For several GCC countries with a track record of Islamist activism in ...

About This Book - De Gruyter

... politics and the political economy in a comprehensive and integrated fash ... rentier, nowlate rentier, bargain that sustains the royal family and ...

Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa - Wikipedia

... countries. Other explanations include the problem that most of the states in the region are rentier states, which experience the theorized resource curse.

Beyond Allocation: The Politics of Legitimacy in Qatar - myMESA3

As Schlumberger (2010) notes, “Despite its centrality to political ... rentier regimes to address more than the state access to natural resource wealth?

The Frailty of Authority. Borders, Non-State Actors and Power ...

the Gulf states prioritize backing armed groups seeking to overthrow the Syrian regime. Nor can regional politics be clearly viewed as de- fined by ...

Policy Brief

Rentier state theory grew out of an attempt to understand political development in the oil-rich states of the Middle. East. The framework has since been ...

The Political Economy of Skill Formation in a Rentier State - ERIC

This paper offers an analysis of Oman's. TVET system in the socio-economic and cultural context of a rentier state. Approach: We draw on the political economy ...

Migration and the Gulf - Middle East Institute

Hence, the political implication of the rentier state was “no taxation and no representation.” The end result was the cre- ation of a dual labor market with ...

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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as well as the Gulf states are a politically ... The rentier model, especially apparent in the Gulf states, almost ...

Rethinking the Rentier States and Democracy - SID

follows; A rentier state is a government that is able to use its legitimate ... A theory of late rentierism: in the Arab states of the Gulf”.