Hertog, Steffen (2007) Shaping the Saudi state: human agency’s shifting role in rentier-state formation. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 39 (04). 539-563 . ISSN 0020-7438
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Abstract
There are two established ways of recounting the emergence of the modern Gulf oil monarchies. The social scientific explanation describes anonymous structural forces, the “resource curse” of the “rentier state,” and how these have shaped politics and markets with their inexorable logic. The other narrative, of the popular history variety, offers romantic, personalized accounts of desert shaykhs, their whims, and the sudden riches of their families (complemented, in some less benevolent accounts, by tales of monumental corruption).
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| Official URL: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna... |
| Additional Information: | © 2007 Cambridge University Press |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > Government Research centres and groups > Middle East Centre |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2010 14:43 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/29872/ |
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