List of figures; List of tables; Preface and acknowledgements; Glossary; Map. The Middle East and North Africa; 1. Overview; 2. The challenges of globalization; 3. Political capacities and capitalist legacies; 4. Bunker states; 5. Bully praetorian states; 6. Globalizing monarchies; 7. Fragmented democracies; 8. Conclusion; References; Index.
An incisive analysis of the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa.
Clement M. Henry is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications include The Mediterranean Debt Crescent: A Comparative Study of Money and Power in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey (1996) and (with co-editor Kate Gillespie) Oil in the New World Order (1995). Robert Springborg is Director of the American Research Center in Egypt. Until 1999 he was Professor of Middle East Politics at Macquarie University. His most recent publication (with Abdo Baaklini and Guilain Denoeux) is Legislative Politics in the Arab World (1999), while his book Politics in the Middle East (1993), which he co-authored with James A. Bill, is now in its fifth edition.
'This is a very interesting, provocative and thought-provoking book by two of the most experienced political scientists, turned political economists, at work on the Middle East.' E. Roger Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle Eastern History, Harvard University '... it is an excellent presentation of the opportunities much of the Middle East has missed and the costs of this failure.' Development Policy Review 'This concise study is a valuable addition to the literature on the political economy of the Middle East.' The Journal of Development Studies
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