Rentier militaries in the Gulf states: the price of coup-proofing

Hertog, Steffen ORCID: 0000-0002-6758-9564 (2011) Rentier militaries in the Gulf states: the price of coup-proofing. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 43 (3). pp. 400-402. ISSN 0020-7438

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna...
Additional Information:	© 2011 Cambridge University Press
Divisions:	Government
Subjects:	J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Date Deposited:	15 Oct 2012 09:01
Last Modified:	23 Oct 2024 04:42
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/46748

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