Doing Business in the Middle East - Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait

Informationen zum Autor Pete Moore is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science! University of Miami. Klappentext The first book to examine relations between state authority and elite business representation in the Middle East. Zusammenfassung Moore's book is the first to examine relations between state authority and elite business representation in the Middle East. By considering the Kuwait and Jordan cases! he concludes that unleashing the private sector alone is insufficient to change current political and economic arrangements when established political infrastructures remain in place. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Summers of discontent: business-state politics in the Middle East; 2. Organizing first: business and political authority during state formation; 3. Politics and profits; 4. Crises at century's end; 5. Is business the solution?

Product details

• Authors: Pete W. Moore, Pete W. (University of Miami) Moore
• Assisted by: Julia A. Clancy-Smith (Editor), Charles Tripp (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.2004
• EAN: 9780521839556
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83955-6
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education