The State and Global Change: The Political Economy of Transition in the Middle East and north Africa / Edition 1

by Hassan Hakimian, Ziba Moshaver

Overview

A re-thinking of the main issues, revolving around the themes of the rationale and strategies for reform, the process and its outcomes, and the nature of the state in the changing global setting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700713653
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/23/2000
Series:	Institute of East Asian Studies
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hassan Hakimian and Ziba Moshaver

Table of Contents

Missing links - institutional capability, policy reform and growth in the MENA region; structural obstacles to economic adjustment in the MENA region - the international trade aspects; from MENA to East Asia and back - lessons of globalisation, crisis and economic reform; the politics of economic liberalization - comparing Egypt and Syria; economic reform and the state in Tunisia; international and regional environments and state transformation in some Arab countries; restructuring the public sector in post-1980 Turkey - an assessment; states, elites and the "management of change"; the Middle Eastern state - repositioning not retreat?; global change, interdependence, and the state autonomy - a view from the MENA region.

Editorial Reviews

The collection offers depth and breadth of analysis and many insights on the Middle East.

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