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| Figures and Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preliminary Notes | |
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| Oil the Arab Countries and "the Middle East and North Africa" (MENA) | |
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| On Transliteration of Arabic | |
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| Introduction: Uprisings and Revolutions | |
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| Fettered Development | |
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| The Facts | |
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| Poverty, Inequality, Precarity | |
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| Informal Sector and Unemployment: The Bouazizi Syndrome | |
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| Youth Underemployment | |
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| Female Underemployment | |
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| Graduate Unemployment | |
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| Fetters on Development | |
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| The Peculiar Modalities of Capitalism in the Arab Region | |
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| The Problem of Investment | |
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| Public and Private Investment | |
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| A Specific Variant of the Capitalist Mode of Production | |
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| Rentier and Patrimonial States | |
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| A Politically Determined Capitalism: Nepotism and Risk | |
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| The Genesis of the Specific Regional Variant of Capitalism: An Overview | |
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| Regional Political Factors | |
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| The Oil Curse | |
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| From "Arab Despotic Exception" to "Democracy Promotion" | |
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| The Muslim Brothers, Washington, and the Saudis | |
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| The Muslim Brothers, Washington, and Qatar | |
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| Al Jazeera and the Upheaval in the Arab Mediascape | |
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| Actors and Parameters of the Revolution | |
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| Overdetermination and Subjective Conditions | |
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| The Workers' Movement and Social Struggles | |
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| New Actors and New Information and Communications Technologies | |
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| States and Revolutions | |
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| A Provisional Balance Sheet of the Arab Uprising | |
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| Coups d'�tat and Revolutions | |
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| Provisional Balance Sheet No. 1: Tunisia | |
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| Provisional Balance Sheet No. 2: Egypt | |
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| Provisional Balance Sheet No. 3: Yemen | |
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| Provisional Balance Sheet No. 4: Bahrain | |
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| Provisional Balance Sheet No. 5: Libya | |
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| Provisional Balance Sheet No. 6: Syria | |
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| Co-opting the Uprising | |
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| Washington and the Muslim Brothers, Take Two | |
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| Nato, Libya, and Syria | |
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| The "Islamic Tsunami" and the Difference between Khomeini and Morsi | |
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| Conclusion: The Future of the Arab Uprising | |
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| The Difference between Erdogan and Ghannouchi… | |
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| … And the Difference between Erdogan and Morsi | |
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| Conditions for a Genuine Solution | |
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| Notes | |
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| References and Sources | |
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| Index | |