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Moore, Pete. "Late Development and Rents in the Arab World" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61099_index.html>

Moore, P. , 2004-09-02 "Late Development and Rents in the Arab World" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61099_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Debates about the rentier state, or what is more broadly termed “the resource curse,” are picking up steam. Several current and forthcoming studies engage different aspects of the general question: to what extent does a developing state’s access to significant exogenous revenues (oil, mineral export, foreign aid, and so on) account for domestic political patterns such as authoritarian regime durability? An ironic aspect of this debate is that while much of the original rentier scholarship was developed by Middle East specialists, scholars extending those findings today are generally not Middle East specialists while many of the skeptics are. This paper provides a critical review of the debate from the perspective of a Middle East comparativist and suggests new avenues of research by returning to what I term “revised rentier theory.” Three variables are discussed in the context of modern Middle East politics: the importance of pre-rent socio-political relations and institutions, regional patterns of conflict and security, and disaggregating rent types and variation in their decline. The basic claim is that understanding the importance of rents to politics requires augmenting current tests of whether exogenous rents are probabilistically causal with micro-level analyses of how rents interacted with specific socio-political and historical settings. In other words, access to exogenous rents in the Middle East is a feature of late-development.

Economic Development, State Stability, and the Private Sector in the Middle East: The Cases of Iran and Kuwait

Foiling the Conflict Trap: Strategies of Economic Development in Post-Conflict States