Kuwait: the transformation of an oil state
In: Routledge library editions. Society of the Middle East, Volume 11
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In: Routledge library editions. Society of the Middle East, Volume 11
In: Cambridge Middle East library 24
World Affairs Online
In: Tribes and States in a Changing Middle East, S. 37-56
In: Annuaire marocain de la stratégie et des relations internationales, S. [1205]-1222
ISSN: 2351-888X
World Affairs Online
In: The Middle East journal, Band 52, Heft 2, S. 277-280
ISSN: 0026-3141
In: Human Rights Quarterly, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 435
In: Human rights quarterly, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 435-454
ISSN: 1085-794X
World Affairs Online
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 262-289
ISSN: 0043-8871
World Affairs Online
In: Human rights quarterly: a comparative and international journal of the social sciences, humanities, and law, Band 16, S. 435-454
ISSN: 0275-0392
Focus on the background and influence of the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR), founded in 1983.
In: Human rights quarterly: a comparative and international journal of the social sciences, humanities, and law, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 435-454
ISSN: 0275-0392
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 46, Heft 2, S. 262-289
ISSN: 1086-3338
While scholars outside the Arab world often link authoritarianism there to some dark cultural template involving religious doctrine or family structure, scholars of the region ground their explanations in political economy, in the historical evolution of the state, in patterns of state-society interactions, and in ideological appeals. To understand authoritarian outcomes, they draw attention to economic transformations, to social actors and the importance of organized social groups, to the role of state efforts to contain them in shaping political outcomes, to the repressive institutions that sometimes arise from this process, and to weaknesses of state ideologies that arise to justify authoritarian outcomes. Their work allows us to unpack the phenomenon of authoritarianism by reorganizing it into three different sets of forces: those that precipitate authoritarianism, those that sustain it, and those that resist it. The result is a clearer and more nuanced understanding of the range of factors that affect the likelihood of any state resorting to violence.
In: American political science review, Band 87, Heft 1, S. 246-247
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: American political science review, Band 85, Heft 4, S. 1489-1490
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: Comparative politics, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 427
ISSN: 2151-6227