Reform in the Middle East Oil Monarchies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reform in the Middle East Oil Monarchies write by Anoushiravan Ehteshami. This book was released on 2008. Reform in the Middle East Oil Monarchies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The oil rich monarchies of the Arabian Peninsula are frequently dismissed as having no democratic systems compared to most other regions of the world. Indeed, the United States justified its action in Iraq by proclaiming that democracy and freedom must be adopted both in Iraq and throughout the wider Middle East, in order to counter the conditions which breed international terrorism. It has been argued that the countries of the Arabian Peninsula need to provide a system of democratic representation that fully takes into account their own history and culture. This raises many questions. Can their firmly established tradition of rule provide the basis for the evolution of an Arab form of constitutional monarchy? Should the West be seeking to encourage national indigenous evolution rather than working to impose Western systems? What are the risks of change and what has been achieved so far? This book addresses these issues and examines the drivers, progress, and challenges for future change in this vitally strategic area of the world.
Good Governance in the Middle East Oil Monarchies
Good Governance in the Middle East Oil Monarchies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Good Governance in the Middle East Oil Monarchies write by Martin Hetherington. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Good Governance in the Middle East Oil Monarchies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the concept of good governance and how it is applied in the states of the Gulf Co-operation Council.
Political Change in the Arab Oil Monarchies
Political Change in the Arab Oil Monarchies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Change in the Arab Oil Monarchies write by Anoushiravan Ehteshami. This book was released on 2008. Political Change in the Arab Oil Monarchies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The oil monarchies of the Persian Gulf region have typically been portrayed as patriarchal autocracies characterized by traditional tribal rule that have taken on the characteristics of a modern state. The historical debate on these rentier states has centered on how their substantial oil income since the 1970s has allowed them to pacify their citizenry from making demands for enfranchisement. Power was thus firmly able to rest with the elites. Since the end of the Cold War, winds of change flamed the desire for reform and the late 1990s saw significant political changes. The empirical data indicates that this pace has increased, albeit at differential speeds, within the context of the post-9/11 war on terror. Interestingly, this has been the case despite turmoil in Iraq and a shift to the right in Iranian politics. The fundamental drivers of reform in the Arab oil monarchies continue to be the ruling elites themselves, however. The character of the reforms does appear to be mainly liberalizing rather than democratizing, but developments in some oil monarchies suggest that this process can be viewed as an early or intermediate stage of a wider enfranchisement of civil society.
Oil States in the New Middle East
Oil States in the New Middle East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oil States in the New Middle East write by Kjetil Selvik. This book was released on 2015-07-16. Oil States in the New Middle East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Oil has been central to regime survival for oil states across the Arabian Peninsula and has been at the heart of their attempts to defuse the wave of Arab revolutions. However, in 2011 revolution hit Libya, the most oil dependent regime in the Middle East. The political storm winds that have swept this region have thrown into doubt the resilience of Arab rentier states, and highlight how the political effects of oil vary across the oil producing countries. Oil States in the New Middle East brings together leading experts to critically assess the centrality of oil and the relevance of Rentier State Theory in light of the post-2011 upheaval across the Middle East and North Africa. It combines overall reflections on the political dynamics in oil states with focused case investigations of individual countries. Taking as its starting point the centrality of oil in explanations of regime survival, the book analyses how the oil states have responded to and fared throughout the Arab popular upheavals, resulting in a critical assessment of the continued relevance of Rentier State Theory. While observers have asked how the uprisings varied between oil and non-oil states, this book turns the comparative focus inward, arguing for a more fine-grained understanding of the political effects of oil in different oil producing countries. This book would be of interest to students and scholars of Middle East, North Africa and Gulf Studies, Oil and Politics, as well as Comparative Politics and International Political Economy.
The Arab Gulf States and Reform in the Middle East
The Arab Gulf States and Reform in the Middle East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Arab Gulf States and Reform in the Middle East write by Y. Guzansky. This book was released on 2014-12-03. The Arab Gulf States and Reform in the Middle East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This analysis seeks to analyse the main trends in Gulf security in light of the changes in the regional and international arena, while examining the relationship between external and internal threats, which are intertwined in the Gulf security agenda.
