Author: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Publisher: Washington : American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Presented by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research as the ninth study within the framework of its Middle East research project." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author: Steffen Hertog
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1849042357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although most Arab countries remain authoritarian, many have undergone a restructuring of state-society relations in which lower- and middle-class interest groups have lost ground while big business has benefited in terms of its integration into policy-making and the opening of economic sectors that used to be state-dominated. Arab businesses have also started taking on aspects of public service provision in health, media and education that used to be the domain of the state; they have also become increasingly active in philanthropy. The ‘Arab Spring,’ which is likely to lead to a more pluralistic political order, makes it all the more important to understand business interests in the Middle East, a segment of society that on the one hand has often been close to the ancien regime, but on the other will play a pivotal role in a future social contract. Among the topics addressed by the authors are the role of business in recent regime change; the political outlook of businessmen; the consequences of economic liberalisation on the composition of business elites in the Middle East; the role of the private sector in orienting government policies; lobbying of government by business interests and the mechanisms by which governments seek to keep businesses dependent on them.
Author: James A. Bill
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780673522764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work examines the issues, problems and processes found in the politics of the region in an analytical framework. It looks at particular events which have cut across the region both chronologically and geographically. It also focuses on a number of changes in ideologies, patterns of authority and political economies of Middle-Eastern states. democracy and human rights, expanding Islamic activism; responses by governments to both these trends, substandard economic growth and the region's high-level militarization.
Author: I. William Zartman
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rola El-Husseini
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2012-12-05
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0815651945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pax Syriana provides readers with a broad picture of what has changed, and what has failed to change, in the Lebanese political system after the end of the civil war.
Author: Clement Moore Henry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-09-06
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139490818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this 2010 edition of their book on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa, Clement Henry and Robert Springborg reflect on what has happened to the region's economy since 2001. How have the various countries in the Middle East responded to the challenges of globalization and to the rise of political Islam, and what changes, for better or for worse, have occurred? Utilizing the country categories they applied in the previous book and further elaborating the significance of the structural power of capital and Islamic finance, they demonstrate how over the past decade the monarchies (as exemplified by Jordan, Morocco and those of the Gulf Cooperation Council) and the conditional democracies (Israel, Turkey and Lebanon) continue to do better than the military dictatorships or 'bullies' (Egypt, Tunisia and now Iran) and 'the bunker states' (Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen).
Author: Volker Perthes
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781588262660
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The recent deaths of four long-term heads of state in the Arab world heralded important changes, as political power passed from one generation to the next. Shedding light on these changes, Arab Elites explores the attitudes and political agendas of the new leadership emerging throughout the region. A strong analytical framework informs the authors discussion of elites in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian National Authority, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Tunisia. The result is a portrait of the current state, and likely future, of politics in the Arab Middle East.