Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Map. The Middle East and North Africa
- 1 Overview
- 2 The challenges of globalization
- 3 Political capacities and capitalist legacies
- 4 Bunker states
- 5 Bully praetorian states
- 6 Globalizing monarchies
- 7 Fragmented democracies
- 8 Conclusion
- References
- Index
4 - Bunker states
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Map. The Middle East and North Africa
- 1 Overview
- 2 The challenges of globalization
- 3 Political capacities and capitalist legacies
- 4 Bunker states
- 5 Bully praetorian states
- 6 Globalizing monarchies
- 7 Fragmented democracies
- 8 Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
The critical political weakness of the praetorian republics ruled physically or metaphorically from bunkers is that their states have little if any autonomy from traditional social forces that managed, typically during the turbulent nationalist phase that followed the end of colonial rule, to seize control of those states.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001