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    Rentiers and Autocrats, Monarchs and Democrats, State and Society: The Middle East Between Gliablization, Human 'Agency,' and Europe

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    Nonneman, Gerd
    Abstract
    The key concerns in work on the politics of the Middle East in the past decade have been economic and political liberalization/democratization and security, both domestic and international, along with a continued focus on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Recent research on the politics and political economy of the region, and on The Euro-Mediter-ranean Partnership shows that a combination of political-economic and related political-cultural factors, along with the Arab-Israeli conflict, continue to hamper political and economic reform in the Middle East, and that European policy as currently conceived is unlikely to affect this greatly. Yet such recent work also shows that aspects of globalization are changing the environment in which Middle Eastern regimes are having to function, while at the same time offering civil society new tools. Middle Eastern societies do, to varying extents, possess the necessary ‘spaces’ and traditions for human ‘agency’ to escape the constraints of domestic and international ‘structures’ and evolve new political cultures-including democratic ones. Existing judicial or legislative institutions may acquire volition of their own and reinforce this process. There is nothing in ‘Islam’ that necessarily obstructs such possibilities. And supposedly ‘obsolete’ monarchies might yet be among the most successful types of regime in coping with such change.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/713210
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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00183
    Date Published
    2002
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    Subject
    Middle East; Politics; Economy; Globalization;
    Type
    Article
    Is Part Of
    International Affairs, 77(1).
    Publisher
    Wiley
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