Politics of the modern Arab world : critical issues in modern politics / edited by Laleh Khalili.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

State, power and political economy. The state in the Middle East and North Africa, comparative politics / Anderson, Lisa -- The limits of the state : beyond statist approaches and their critics, American Political Science Review / Mitchell, Timothy -- Seeing like a citizen acting like a state : exemplary events in unified Yemen, comparative studies in society and history / Wedeen, Lisa -- Absolutism and the resilience of monarchy in the Middle East, Political Science Quarterly / Anderson, Lisa -- The politics of encapsulation : Saudi policy towards tribal and religious opposition, Middle Eastern Studies / Al-Rasheed, Loulouwa -- The new orientalism and the democracy debate, Middle East Report / Sadowski, Yahya -- "Waiting for Godot" : Regime change without democratization in the Middle East, International Political Science Review / Albrecht, Holger and Oliver Schlumberger -- Contingent democrats : industrialists, labor, and democratization in late-developing countries, World Politics / Bellin, Eva Rana -- Regimes reinventing themselves : constitutional development in the Arab world / Brown, Nathan J. -- Defensive democratization in Jordan, International Journal of Middle East Studies / Robinson, Glenn -- Regimes and rules : reassessing the influence of regime type on electoral law formation, Comparative Political Studies / Lust-Okar, Ellen and Amaney Jamal-- An 'Islamic economics'? problems in the imagined reappropriation of economic life, politics and the ends of identity (edited by K. Dean, Aldershot : Ashgate) / Tripp, Charles -- In the basha's house : the organizational culture of Egyptian public-sector enterprise, International Journal of Middle East Studies / Shehata, Samer -- Labour in the Levant : Syrian migrants in Lebanon, New Left Review / Chalcraft, John -- Irrational workers : the moral economy of labor protest in Egypt, World Politics / Marsha Pripstein-Posusney -- Fear and money in Dubai, New Left Review / Davis, Mike -- Sex and violence : social reactions to economic restructuring in Kuwait, International Feminist Journal of Politics / Tetreault, Mary-Ann -- Economic liberalization and the lineages of the rentier state, Comparative Politics / Chaudhry, Kiren Aziz -- Rentier wealth, unruly law, and the rise of opposition : the political economy of oil states, Comparative Politics / Okruhlik, Gwenn -- No representation without taxation? rents, development and democracy, comparative politics / Herb, Michael.