Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East.
The Arab Spring that resides in the popular imagination is one in which a wave of mass …

No monarchy fell to revolution in the Arab Spring. What accounts for this monarchical
exceptionalism? Analysts have argued that royal autocracies are inherently more resilient …

The contrast between Kuwait and the UAE today illustrates the vastly different possible
futures facing the smaller states of the Gulf. Dubai's rulers dream of creating a truly global …

PROPERLY TRANSLITERATING WORDS from Arabic and Per-sian into English is a task
best left to linguists. To avoid confusion, in this book I have used the most popularized …

This article examines the determinants of immigration policy toward low-skilled workers
across 13 relatively wealthy autocracies after World War II. I argue that authoritarian …

Muhammad bin Salman Al-Saud and Muhammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the respective
princely strongmen of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have torn up the old rules. They have …

Environmental state debates focus on the governance and steering functions of politics.
Concurrently, many states stand out as large global owners and investors in carbon …

Why have social spending levels and social policy trajectories diverged so drastically across
labour-abundant Middle Eastern and North African regimes? And how can we explain the …

Zusammenfassung Eine Vielzahl von Staaten des Globalen Südens ist durch eine starke
Rohstoffabhängigkeit geprägt. Diese Länder können als Rentengesellschaften …

This article aims to analyze the implications of the Arab uprisings on the Rentier State
Theory (RST). Initial conceptualization of rentier state was based on the impact of externally …