Steffen Hertog
'Shaping the Saudi State: human agency's shifting role in rentier-state formation'
Hertog, Steffen
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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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Hertog, S. (2007). 'Shaping the Saudi State: human agency's shifting role in rentier-state formation'. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 39(4), 539-563. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743807071073
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Nov 1, 2007 |
Deposit Date | Sep 24, 2008 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 24, 2008 |
Journal | International Journal of Middle East Studies |
Print ISSN | 0020-7438 |
Electronic ISSN | 1471-6380 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 39 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 539-563 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743807071073 |
Keywords | Gulf oil monarchies, Rentier state, Resource curse. |
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This paper has been published in a revised form,
subsequent to editorial input by Cambridge University Press,
in "International journal of Middle East studies"
(39: 4 (2007) 539-563),
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=MES.
© 2007 Cambridge University Press
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