Why has the Arab state been associated with authoritarian types of governance?
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Most answers to this question point to the absence of a developed civil society in the Arab Middle East.
A second explanation advanced by post-colonial critics stresses that Arab regimes like Egypt, Jordan, S. Arabia,
Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the U.E.A., Oman, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and now Libya, are US and EU allies whose regimes were supported for two reasons:
a) have been ‘client states’ of the West;
b) Fear of Islamist radicalism.
Please use the following essential sources:
1- Halliday, Fred (2005) The Middle East in International Relations – Power, Politics and Ideology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2- Mansfield, Peter (2013) A History of the Middle East, London: Penguin, Fourth Edition.
3- Elizabeth Picard, ‘Arab Military in Politics: from Revolutionary Plot to Authoritarian State’, Giacomo Luciani ed., The Arab State, 1992, p.200.
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