DIWAN, ISHAC - In: Middle East Development Journal (MEDJ) 05 (2013) 01, pp. 1350004-1
The paper presents the outlines of a coherent, structural, long term account of the socio-economic and political evolution of the Arab republics that can explain both the persistence of autocracy until 2011, and the its eventual collapse, in a way that is empirically verifiable. I argue that the...
