1. Oil and Institutional Stasis in the Persian Gulf
Mehran Kamrava
2. Imperial Origins of the Oil Curse
Desha Girod and Meir R. Walters
3. Rentierism’s Siblings: On the Linkages between Rents, Neopatrimonialism, and Entrepreneurial State Capitalism in the Persian Gulf Monarchies
Matthew Gray
4. Reformers and the Rentier State: Re-Evaluating the Co-Optation Mechanism in Rentier State Theory
Jessie Moritz
5. Cursed No More? The Resource Curse, Gender, and Labor Nationalization Policies in the GCC
Gail J. Buttorff, Nawra Al Lawati and Bozena C Welborne
6. The Impact of Oil Rents on Military Spending in the GCC Region: Does Corruption Matter?
Mohammad Reza Farzanegan
Biography
Mehran Kamrava is Professor and Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University, Qatar. He is author of a number of books, including, most recently, A Concise History of Revolution (2020), Inside the Arab State (2018) and Troubled Waters: Insecurity in the Persian Gulf (2018).
