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Globalization and the politics of development in the Middle East
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ISBN: 0521626315 052162312X 0511116896 0511154178 0511325193 0511807686 1280162716 0511050577 0511017979 1107114993 9780511154171 9780511116896 9780521626316 9780521623124 9780511017971 9780511807688 9780511050572 6610162719 9786610162710 Year: 2001 Volume: 1 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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At the beginning of the twenty-first century countries in the Middle East and North Africa contend with the threats and opportunities of economic globalization, the driving force of change in the contemporary world. As the authors confirm in their straightforward and, at times, irreverent analysis of the regions' response to these challenges, it is globalization which is the key to an understanding of economic reform. Through an investigation of the structures of state and civil society, including financial systems, they also demonstrate that there is a direct correlation between economic performance and democratization. In other words, the more liberal the polity, the more effective is its economy in responding to globalization. With its interesting and incisive approach to the politics and economics of the Middle East and North Africa, this will be an essential purchase for students and policy-makers and anyone trying to come to grips with economic globalization generally.

The Rubik Cube of the wider Middle East
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ISBN: 9290794186 9789290794189 Year: 2003 Publisher: Brussels: Centre for European policy studies,

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Given the complexity and severity of the problems involved, this book asserts that a comprehensive regional initiative for the Wider Middle East is called for and proceeds to outline exactly what that would entail. The first-best solution would be the adoption of a convergent strategy towards the Wider Middle East by the EU and US together. The authors argue that a US policy that waged a unilateral war against Iraq and left the Israeli-Arab conflict still festering would mean counterproductive effects for the fight against Al Qaeda and huge damage to Western-Islamic relations as well as to the transatlantic alliance. At the same time, however, the EU must be prepared to strengthen both the ‘carrots’ and the ‘sticks’ in its policies in the region in any case. The point of the image of Rubik’s Cube is to stress the need for a coherent vision for all three regions of the Wider Middle East (Maghreb, Mashreq and the Gulf), for all three major vectors of policy (politics, economics and security), and for all three major external participants (the US, Europe and the international organisations).

A political economy of the Middle East : state, class, and economic development
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ISBN: 0813301564 9780813301563 Year: 1990 Publisher: Boulder (Colo.): Westview press,

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