A political economy of the Middle East / Alan Richards, John Waterbury.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-450) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Framework of the Study -- Economic Growth and Structural Transformation -- State Structure and Development Policy -- Social Actors -- Structural Transformation and Interest Formation -- Defensive Modernization and Colonial Transformation -- 3. Economic Growth and Structural Change -- The Natural Resource Base -- Oil Supply, Demand, and Economic Rents -- Patterns of Economic Growth -- 4. The Impact of Demographic Change -- Comparative Demographic Patterns -- The Economic Consequences of Demographic Change -- The Politics of Young Populations -- The Politics of Differential Fertility -- Rapid Population Growth and the Would-Be Middle Class -- 5. Human Capital: Health, Education, and Labor Markets -- Health Conditions -- Educational Systems -- Labor Markets -- 6. Water and Food Security -- The Food Gap -- Policy Constraints to Output Growth -- Water and the Imperative of a New Food Security Strategy -- 7. The Emergence of the Public Sector -- The State as Architect of Structural Transformation -- Ataturk and the Turkish Paradigm -- Replicating the Paradigm -- State Capitalism, the State Bourgeoisie, and the Process of Accumulation -- 8. Contradictions of State-Led Growth -- The Continued Dominance of Public-Sector Enterprise -- The Political Economy of "Structural Adjustment," -- 9. Re-Mixing Market and State: The Uncertain Career of the "Washington Consensus" -- A Survey of Country Experiences -- 10. Urban Political Economy -- The Process of Urbanization -- Housing and Infrastructure -- Poverty and Distribution of Income -- Urban Politics and Political Violence -- 11. Political Regimes: As Viewed By Themselves and Others -- Socialist Republics -- "Liberal" Monarchies -- Established and Would-Be Democracies -- The Islamic Republics -- Future Regimes: Some Speculations -- 12. Solidarism and Its Enemies -- Small Groups and Clientelist Politics -- The Failure of Parties -- The Tenets of Solidarism -- The Failure of Ideology -- The Islamist Challenge -- Democracy Without Democrats? -- 13. The Military and the State -- The Military in Middle East Politics -- Good Guys or Bad Guys? -- The Economic Weight of the Military -- The Military and Nation Building -- The Regular Military and Civilians-in-Arms -- 14. Is Islam the Solution? -- Islamism as a Social Movement: Coalitions of Social Actors -- Islamism as a Social Movement: Collective Action -- Islamist Economic Thought and Practice -- Islamists in Power -- 15. Regional Economic Integration and Labor Migration -- Labor Migration: An Overview -- The First Stream: To the European Union -- The Second Stream: To the Gulf -- The Impact of Labor Migration on Sending Countries -- The Impact of Migration on Receiving Countries -- 16. Conclusion.

This integrated, analytic text presents a comprehensive analysis of the transformation of the political economy of development in the contemporary Middle East over the past several decades. Extensively rewritten and revised, the third edition of A Political Economy of the Middle East retains a focus on the interaction of economic development processes, state systems, and social actors even as it also: Documents the many changes in demography, education, labor markets, urbanization, water and agriculture, and international labor migration in the Middle East in recent years; Considers the effect of rising oil prices on reinforcement of authoritarian governance in the region; Refines its assessment of 2the Washington Consensus3 to provide a more nuanced approach to the issue of the shifting balance of state and market in economic growth and reform (in an entirely rewritten Chapter 9); Presents Islamism as a vital force in the region that is nonetheless a vast, diverse social movement with many conflicting participants (in a wholly revised Chapter 14).