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Defying the Resource Curse: Explaining Successful State-Owned Enterprises in Rentier States
The article explains how several Gulf rentier monarchies have managed to create highly profitable and well-managed state-owned enterprises (SOEs), confounding expectations of both general SOE inefficiency and the particularly poor quality of rentier public sectors. It argues that a combination of two factors explains the outcome: the absence of a populist-mobilizational history and substantive regime autonomy in economic policy-making. The author concludes that it is necessary to rethink the commonly accepted generalizations both about rentier states and, arguably, about public sectors in the developing world.
War Makes the Regime: Regional Rebellions and Political Militarization Worldwide
War can make states, but can it also make regimes? This article brings the growing literatures on authoritarianism and coups into conversation with the older research tradition analyzing the interplay between war and state formation. The authors offer a global empirical test of the argument that regional rebellions are especially likely to give rise to militarized authoritarian regimes. While this argument was initially developed in the context of Southeast Asia, the article deepens the original theory by furnishing a deductively grounded framework embedded in rational actor approaches in the coup and civil–military literatures. In support of the argument, quantitative tests confirm that regional rebellions make political militarization more likely not simply in a single region, but more generally.
المملكة العربية السعودية في الميزان : ‏الاقتصاد السياسي والمجتمع والشؤون الخارجية
هذا الكتاب هو حصيلة أعمال ندوة نظمها في العام 2004 \"المعهد الدولي لدراسة الإسلام في العالم الحديث\". (ISIM) (مقره هولندا) وقد تضمنت أعمال الندوة بحوثا علمية لنخبة من السياسيين والاقتصاديين والأكاديميين العرب والأجانب، كرست دراسة وتحليل السياسة السعودية المعاصرة ضمن ثلاثة محاور : الأيديولوجيا، والاقتصاد، والسياسة ؛ لأهميتها في التعرف على العربية السعودية. ورغم انقضاء ثماني سنوات على انعقاد الندوة المشار إليها فإن هذا الكتاب يطرح مواضيع ومحاور لها أهمية تتجاوز آنية المؤتمر وموعد انعقاده، وهو يعالج قضايا ذات صلة بالمظاهر البنيوية التي لا تزال تمثلاتها ظاهرة للعيان حتى اليوم، رغم ما مرت به المنطقة العربية من تطورات منذ كانون الأول / ديسمبر 2010، وما حصل بعدها من سلسلة الثورات العربية. السؤال الذي يطرح نفسه اليوم هو : هل هذا الكتاب، بما فيه من أطروحات قيمة يستطيع أن يصمد بعد انطلاق الربيع العربي بدرجة تبرر قيام \"مركز دراسات الوحدة العربية\" بترجمته ونشره باللغة العربية، رغم مضي سنوات على صدوره باللغة الإنكليزية (2005) ؟ إن ما يحتويه الكتاب من بحوث يسوغ الترجمة والنشر للأسباب الآتية : (1) أهمية الكتاب من الناحية العلمية والأكاديمية، وتعدد وجهات النظر المطروحة فيه ؛ (2) ما يقدمه من تمثل لواقع يكتسي أهميته في تاريخنا المعاصر، بما يقتضي توثيقه واستحضار مكوناته ؛ (3) رغبة المركز في أن يساهم هذا الكتاب في توسيع دائرة الحوار حول التغيير الذي يشهده الوطن العربي، بما يؤدي إلى تقديم فهم رصين للديناميات المعتملة في المملكة، والتحديات التي تواجهها، وردود الأفعال عليها ؛ (4) التحديث الذي تناول معظم الفصول، في الطبعة العربية، عبر إضافات أساسية، سواء في المتن أو في السياقات الموضوعية، أو من خلال الملاحق والمعلومات المستجدة.
The Sociology of the Gulf Rentier Systems: Societies of Intermediaries
Theories about the politics and economics of resource-rich or “rentier” states have been around for almost four decades now (Mahdavy 1970; Beblawi 1987; Chaudhry 1997; Humphreys et al. 2007). Political scientists and economists have argued that rents have a negative impact on levels of democracy (Luciani 1987; Ross 2001), on the quality of institutions (Chaudhry 1997; Isham et al. 2005), and on economic growth (Sachs and Warner 2001). Although much debate has been conducted over these macro-correlations, far less attention has been devoted to the causal mechanisms behind them. There is still no unified theory of rentier states, and the micro-foundations of rentier systems in particular have gone largely unexplored.
المملكة العربية السعودية في الميزان : ‏الاقتصاد السياسي والمجتمع والشؤون الخارجية
تضمن الكتاب بحوثا علمية لنخبة من السياسيين والاقتصاديين والأكاديميين العرب والأجانب، كرست دراسة وتحليل السياسة السعودية المعاصرة ضمن ثلاثة محاور : الأيديولوجيا، والاقتصاد، والسياسة لأهميتها في التعرف على العربية السعودية، وهو يعالج قضايا ذات صلة بالمظاهر البنيوية التي لا تزال تمثلاتها ظاهرة للعيان حتى اليوم، رغم ما مرت به المنطقة العربية من تطورات منذ كانون الأول / ديسمبر 2010، وما حصل بعدها من سلسلة الثورات العربية.
Rentier Militaries in the Gulf States: The Price of Coup-Proofing
Oil and dynastic rule have led to an idiosyncratic pattern of state formation in the Gulf, and in few parts of the state are the idiosyncrasies more pronounced than in the security sector. Oil income has allowed the ruling families of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to engineer a relatively soft, rent- and patronage-based authoritarianism characterized by multiple centers of power and huge institutional redundancies. Having constructed their police and military forces along these lines, their monarchical rule has become more resilient, but their armed forces also more hapless.
Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats
InPrinces, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today's Saudi state and are reflected in its policies. Starting in the late 1990s, Saudi Arabia embarked on an ambitious reform campaign to remedy its long-term economic stagnation. The results have been puzzling for both area specialists and political economists: Saudi institutions have not failed across the board, as theorists of the \"rentier state\" would predict, nor have they achieved the all-encompassing modernization the regime has touted. Instead, the kingdom has witnessed a bewildering mélange of thorough failures and surprising successes. Hertog argues that it is traits peculiar to the Saudi state that make sense of its uneven capacities. Oil rents since World War II have shaped Saudi state institutions in ways that are far from uniform. Oil money has given regime elites unusual leeway for various institutional experiments in different parts of the state: in some cases creating massive rent-seeking networks deeply interwoven with local society; in others large but passive bureaucracies; in yet others insulated islands of remarkable efficiency. This process has fragmented the Saudi state into an uncoordinated set of vertically divided fiefdoms. Case studies of foreign investment reform, labor market nationalization and WTO accession reveal how this oil-funded apparatus enables swift and successful policy-making in some policy areas, but produces coordination and regulation failures in others.