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How capitalism failed the Arab world : the economic roots and precarious future of Middle East uprisings / Richard Javad Heydarian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heydarian, Richard Javad, author.
- Series:
- Economic controversies.
- Economic controversies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arab Spring, 2010---Economic aspects.
- Arab Spring, 2010-.
- Arab countries--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Arab countries.
- Arab countries--Economic policy.
- Arab countries--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- [London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Zed Books, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, inequality and unemployment. In How Capitalism Failed the Arab World, Richard Javad Heydarian shows how years of economic mismanagement, political autocracy and corruption have encouraged people to revolt, and how the initial optimism of the uprisings is now giving way to bitter power struggles and continued economic stagnation.
- Contents:
- About the Author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Foreword; Dedication; 1 A brave new Middle East: the birth of a new era; 2 The anti-development state: economic origins of Arab upheavals; 3 The advent of economic globalization: a prelude to crisis; 4 The Great Recession: the collapse of Arab crony capitalism; 5 The new power brokers: political Islam and the Arab summer; 6 Gulf exceptionalism: how the monarchies have reshaped the Arab Spring; 7 Peering into the abyss: the Arab Spring at the crossroads.
- 8 Where do we go from here? Finding the true path to an Arab SpringNotes; References; Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781350220638
- 1350220639
- 9781780329604
- 1780329601
- 9781780329598
- 1780329598
- OCLC:
- 871348844
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