This comparative volume explores the dramatic pathways of political development undertaken by rentier regimes in the Arab world. Here, waging war proved to weaken rather than strengthen state capacity in pernicious ways an insight that contrasts sharply with received Western wisdom about war being the crucible of modern state building. Sean L. Yom, Temple University An important contribution to the literature on state building in the Middle East. Gawdat Bahgat, author of Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle EastWar and State Building in the Middle East addresses the...
This comparative volume explores the dramatic pathways of political development undertaken by rentier regimes in the Arab world. Here, waging war prov...
War and State Building in the Middle East addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the authoritarian-regime governments commonly found in the Middle East, particularly among oil-rich countries. In this region, war has interacted with processes of state making in ways that fundamentally differ from the European experience. In short, unlike in Europe, wars do not make states in the Middle East; they destroy them. According to economic theory, most oil-rich countries are rentier states; that is, they rely upon the extraction of a natural resource to generate revenue and authority...
War and State Building in the Middle East addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the authoritarian-regime governments commonly found in t...
