Panel: The Rentier State Approach and the Arab Spring: Demise or Renaissance of an Old Concept?
During the International DAVO-Congress/German Oriental Studies Conference
23 - 27 September 2013
Münster, Germany
More than two years after the Arab Spring started to gain momentum, it should be a major scholarly task to critically discuss how well-established theoretical approaches could (not) contribute to an explanation of this epochal changes and its ongoing developments. This panel takes this challenge by focusing on the rentier state approach. What are the specific contributions to a better comprehension of the Arab Spring looking through the lenses of the rentier state? Yet, also taking the reverse angle, what are the lessons the rentier state approach should learn from the Arab Spring?
Proposals should be send to the organizers Martin Beck (mbeck@sdu.dk) and Thomas Richter (thomas.richter@giga-hamburg.de) before 20 April 2013.
For more information, visit the conference website or view the original call for papers.