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Steffen Hertog
كتاب: أمراء وسماسرة وبيروقراطيون: النفط والدولة في السعودية
[“كتب” هي سلسلة تستضيف “جدلية” فيها المؤلفين والمؤلفات في حوار حول أعمالهم الجديدة ونرفقه بفصل من الكتاب.] "أمراء، وسماسرة، وبيروقراطيون: النفط والدولة في المملكة العربية السعودية". تأليف ستيفان هيرتوغ مطبعة جامعة كورنل، 2011. صدر بالإنجليزية. جدلية: ما الذي دفعك لكتابة هذا الكتاب؟ ستيفان هيرتوغ: كانت الفكرة الأصلية وراء هذا البحث هي تحليل كيف أن الاصلاحات الاقتصادية الليبرالية تغير الهياكل الاقتصادية والسياسية في دولة غنية بالنفط ...
Keep Reading »New Texts Out Now: Steffen Hertog, Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia
Steffen Hertog, Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Steffen Hertog (SH): The original idea behind the research project was to analyze how liberalizing economic reforms were changing the social and political structures of an oil-rich (or “rentier”) state like Saudi Arabia. That was the plan before I did my fieldwork, but my experience there pretty much ...
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Steffen Hertog is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at the London Schools of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia, and of articles in Comparative Studies in Society and History, World Politics, European Journal of Sociology, Review of International Political Economy, and International Journal of Middle East Studies, among others. A book about political violence and higher education in the Islamic world, co-authored with Diego Gambetta, is forthcoming with Princeton University Press.
