This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins an

Despite its oil wealth, the Middle East and North Africa is economically stagnating. Growth rates are comparatively unfavorable and insufficient to substantiall

Economic liberalisation and reform are widely considered as the favourite remedies for the declining economic fortunes of the Middle Eastern and North African s

This book investigates how ecology and politics meet in the Middle East and how those interactions connect to the global political economy. Through region-wide

Critical examinations of efforts to make governments more efficient and responsive Political upheavals and civil wars in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)