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The Middle East and the state debate - a conceptual framework: the state debate | |
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The state in comparative perspective | |
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The non-individualistic path to the state | |
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The Arabs and the issue of the state | |
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Schematic argument and conceptual framework | |
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Modes of production and the origins of the Arabo-Islamic state: modes of production and social formations | |
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The ancient Near-Eastern state and the "Asiatic mode of production" | |
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Early Islamic Arabia and the nomadic/conquestal mode of production | |
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The Umayyads and the lineage/"iqta'i" symbiosis | |
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The Abbasids and the "iqta'i"/mercantile symbiosis | |
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The Ottomans and the military/"iqta'i" symbiosis | |
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The articulation of modes of production in the historical Arabo-Islamic state | |
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Politics and ideology in the historical Arabo-Islamic state | |
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State formation in the modern era - the colonial/indigenous mix: the European encroachment | |
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A colonial mode of production? | |
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State formation in Egypt | |
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State formation in the Levant | |
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State formation in North Africa | |
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State formation in Arabia and the Gulf | |
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The Arab state - territorial or pan-Arabist?: the pan-Arabist ideology | |
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Pan-Arabism and the "state" | |
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The regional/functional approach | |
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The "missing bourgeoisie" and the future of Arab unity | |
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The sociology of articulated modes - community, class and polity: political culture or political economy? | |
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Social correlates of articulated modes | |
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A closer look at social class | |
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Corporatism and state - society relations | |
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The political system of articulated forms - the radical, populist republics: socialism or "elatisme"? | |
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Corporatist devices - macro and micro | |
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Arab populisms in comparative perspective | |
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The political system of articulated forms - the conservative, kin-ordered monarchies: rentier economies, rentier states | |
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Politics and ideology - the kinship/religion symbiosis | |
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"political tribalism" - or corporatism Gulf-style | |
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Civil-military relations: causes for military intervention | |
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Explaining the decline in coups | |
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The radical republics and the military-industrial complex | |
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The conservative monarchies and the military-tribal complex | |
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Bureaucratic growth - development versus control: expansion in the economic role of the state | |
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Bureaucratic growth in the Arab countries | |
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Eexplaining the expansion | |
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The control functions of Arab bureaucracies | |
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Economic liberalization and privatization - is the Arab state contracting?: modalities or privatization | |
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Domestic versus international stimuli | |
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Country cases | |
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Arab liberalizations in comparative perspective | |
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The politics of economic adjustment | |
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Prospects for democracy - is the civil society striking back?: cultural and intellectual requisites for democracy | |
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Socio-economic requisites for democracy | |
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Political correlates of economic liberalization | |
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Country cases | |
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The Yemeni adventure | |
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Public/private, civil/civic | |
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Conclusion - the "strong", the "hard" and the "fierce" | |