The "Resource Curse" in the Persian Gulf (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kamrava, Mehran

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book systematically address the little studied notion of a "resource curse" in relation to the Persian Gulf, by examining the historical causes and genesis of the phenomenon and its consequences in human development, infrastructural growth, clientelism, state-building and institutional evolution, and societal and gender relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 122
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000727098
• Artikelnr.: 59492601

Autorenporträt

Mehran Kamrava is Professor and Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University, Qatar. He is author of a number of books, including, most recently, A Concise History of Revolution (2020), Inside the Arab State (2018) and Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Oil and Institutional Stasis in the Persian Gulf 2. Imperial Origins of
the Oil Curse 3. Rentierism's Siblings: On the Linkages between Rents,
Neopatrimonialism, and Entrepreneurial State Capitalism in the Persian Gulf
Monarchies 4. Reformers and the Rentier State: Re-Evaluating the
Co-Optation Mechanism in Rentier State Theory 5. Cursed No More? The
Resource Curse, Gender, and Labor Nationalization Policies in the GCC 6.
The Impact of Oil Rents on Military Spending in the GCC Region: Does
Corruption Matter?