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A Political Economy of the Middle East

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Westview Press, Apr 24, 2009 - History - 496 pages
This integrated, analytic text presents a comprehensive analysis of the transformation of the political economy of development in the contemporary Middle East over the past several decades. Extensively rewritten and revised, the third edition ofA Political Economy of the Middle Eastretains a focus on the interaction of economic development processes, state systems, and social actors even as it also: Documents the many changes in demography, education, labor markets, urbanization, water and agriculture, and international labor migration in the Middle East in recent years; Considers the effect of rising oil prices on reinforcement of authoritarian governance in the region; Refines its assessment of “the Washington Consensus” to provide a more nuanced approach to the issue of the shifting balance of state and market in economic growth and reform (in an entirely rewritten Chapter 9); Presents Islamism as a vital force in the region that is nonetheless a vast, diverse social movement with many conflicting participants (in a wholly revised Chapter 14).
  

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Borrowed this book from the library when I first first moved to the ME. The country-specific analysis provided a good starting point for understanding the Arab spring which started a few months after I got here. Read full review

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Not an easy read. If this makes me sound dumb, I can deal with that. Many times I had to go back a page or two and start over just to make sure I was following along properly. Regardless, I learned a ... Read full review

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Contents

Notes
261
URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
264
The Process of Urbanization
268
Housing and Infrastructure
270
Poverty and Distribution of Income
274
Urban Politics and Political Violence
280
Notes
287
POLITICAL REGIMES AS VIEWED BY THEMSELVES AND OTHERS
289

Conclusion
42
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE
44
The Natural Resource Base
46
Oil Supply Demand and Economic Rents
50
Patterns of Economic Growth
57
Conclusion
65
Notes
69
THE IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE
71
Comparative Demographic Patterns
72
The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change
84
The Politics of Young Populations
89
The Politics of Differential Fertility
90
Rapid Population Growth and the WouldBe Middle Class
94
Conclusion
96
Notes
97
HUMAN CAPITAL HEALTH EDUCATION AND LABOR MARKETS
98
Health Conditions
99
Educational Systems
112
Labor Markets
133
Conclusion
141
Notes
142
WATER AND FOOD SECURITY
144
The Food Gap
147
Policy Constraints to Output Growth
156
Water and the Imperative of a New Food Security Strategy
165
Conclusion
176
Notes
177
THE EMERGENCE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR
179
The State as Architect of Structural Transformation
180
Ataturk and the Turkish Pardigm
181
Replicating the Paradigm
185
State Capitalism the State Bourgeoisie and the Process of Accumulation
206
Notes
209
CONTRADICTIONS OF STATELED GROWTH
211
The Continued Dominance of PublicSector Enterprise
215
The Political Economy of Structural Adjustment
218
Notes
227
REMIXING MARKET AND STATE THE UNCERTAIN CAREER OF THE WASHINGTON CONSENSUS
228
A Survey of Country Experiences
233
Conclusion
260
Socialist Republics
291
Liberal Monarchies
311
Establishes and WouldBe Democracies
316
The Islamic Republics
320
Some Speculations
322
Notes
324
SOLIDARISM AND ITS ENEMIES
325
Small Groups and Clientelist Politics
326
The Failure of Parties
328
The Tenets of Solidarism
330
The Failure of Ideology
338
The Islamist Challenge
339
Democracy Without Democrats?
341
Conclusion
343
THE MILITARY AND THE STATE
344
Good Guys or Bad Guys?
348
The Economic Weight of the Military
349
The Military and Nation Building
357
The Regular Military and CiviliansinArms
358
Conclusion
360
Notes
361
IS ISLAM THE SOLUTION?
362
Coalitions of Social Actors
365
Collective Action
368
Islamist Economic Thought and Practice
372
Islamists in Power
378
Conclusion
382
Notes
383
REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND LABOR MIGRATION
385
An Overview
388
To the European Union
389
To the Gulf
390
The Impact of Labor Migration on Sending Countries
394
The Impact of Migration on Receiving Countries
402
Conclusion
405
CONCLUSION
407
References
415
Index
451
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