The State and Global Change

Auteur
Hassan Hakimian and Ziba Moshaver

Texte du rabat

A re-thinking of the main issues, revolving around the themes of the rationale and strategies for reform, the process and its outcomes, and the nature of the state in the changing global setting.

Contenu
Missing links - institutional capability, policy reform and growth in the MENA region; structural obstacles to economic adjustment in the MENA region - the international trade aspects; from MENA to East Asia and back - lessons of globalisation, crisis and economic reform; the politics of economic liberalization - comparing Egypt and Syria; economic reform and the state in Tunisia; international and regional environments and state transformation in some Arab countries; restructuring the public sector in post-1980 Turkey - an assessment; states, elites and the "management of change"; the Middle Eastern state - repositioning not retreat?; global change, interdependence, and the state autonomy - a view from the MENA region.