Over-stating the Arab state : politics and society in the Middle East
This study of politics and the role of the state in the Arab world is aimed at students of Middle East politics, political theory and political economy. Ayubi's main objective is to place the Arab world within a theoretical framework that avoids both ""orientalist"" and ""fundamentalist"" insistence on the utter peculiarity and uniqueness of the region. He focuses on eight countries, and deals with such issues as the emergence of social classes, corporatism, economic liberalization and the relationship between state and civil society
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9781441681966, 9781282751217, 9780857715494, 9786000018894, 1441681965, 1282751212, 0857715496, 6000018894
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Cover
Contents
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. The Middle East and the State Debate: a Conceptual Framework
The state debate
The state in comparative perspective
The non-individualistic path to the state
The Arabs and the issue of the state
Schematic argument and conceptual framework
2. Modes of Production and the Origins of the Arabo-Islamic State
Modes of production and social formations
The ancient near-eastern state and the 'Asiatic mode of production'
Early Islamic Arabia and the nomadic/conquestal mode of production
The Umayyads and the lineage/iqta'i symbiosis
The Abbasids and the iqta'i/mercantile symbiosis
The Ottomans and the military/iqta'i symbiosis
The Articulation of modes of production in the historical arabo-islamic state
Politics and ideology in the historical Arabo-Islamic state
3. State Formation in the Modern Era: the Colonial/Indigenous Mix
The European encroachment
A colonial mode of production?
State Formation in Egypt
State Formation in the Levant
State Formation in North Africa
State Formation in Arabia and the Gulf
4. The Arab State: Territorial or Pan-Arabist?
The pan-Arabist ideology
Pan-Arabism and the 'state'
The regional/functional approach
The 'missing bourgeoisie' and the future of Arab unity
5. The Sociology of Articulated Modes: Community, Class and Polity
Political culture or political economy?
Social correlates of articulated modes
A closer look at social classes
Corporatism and state-society relations
6. The Political System of Articulated Forms: the Radical, Populist Republics
Socialism or 233;tatisme
Corporatist Devices: Macro and Micro
Arab populisms in comparative perspective
7. The Political System of Articulated Forms: the Conservative, Kin-ordered Monarchies
Rentier economies, rentier states
Politics and Ideology: the kinship/religion symbiosis
'Political Tribalism': or corporatism Gulf-style
8. Civil-Military Relations
Causes for military intervention
Explaining the decline in coups
The radical republics and the military-industrial complex
The conservative monarchies and the military-tribal complex
9. Bureaucratic Growth: Development Versus Control
Expansion in the economic role of the state
Bureaucratic growth in the Arab countries
Explaining the expansion
The control functions of Arab bureaucracies
10. Economic Liberalisation and Privatisation: Is the Arab State Contracting?
Modalities of privatisation
Domestic versus international stimuli
Country cases
Arab liberalisations in comparative perspective
The politics of economic adjustment
11. Prospects for Democracy: Is the Civil Society Striking Back?
Cultural and intellectual requisities for democracy
Socio-economic requisities for democracy
Political correlates of economic liberalisation
Manifestations of political liberalisation
Country cases
The Yemeni adventure
Public/private; civil/civic
12. Conclusion: the 'Strong', the 'Hard' and the 'Fierce'
Bibliography
Index
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