"This book examines the strategies and dynamics through which state-society relations in the Arab Gulf region have been cultivated, and explores the alternative

This book examines the strategies and dynamics through which state-society relations in the Arab Gulf region have been cultivated, and explores the alternative

Rentier state theory (RST) remains the dominant literature on state-society relations in the Arab States of the Gulf, yet by focusing on case studies of three o

Saudi Arabia is one of the most important countries in the modern world. Not only does it possess some 25 per cent of the world’s proven oil reserves, it also

The author's objective within this book is to place the Arab world within a theoretical and comparative framework that avoids both orientalist and fundamentalis