Oman: Politics and Society in the Qaboos State (The Ceri / Sciences Po Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies) - Marc Valeri - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199326839 - June 22, 2009
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Marc Valeri
Oman: Politics and Society in the Qaboos State (The Ceri / Sciences Po Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies)

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When Sultan Qaboos overthrew his father as ruler of the Persian Gulf state of Oman in 1970, with the help of British advisers, few expected him to survive long. He was unknown to his own population, and the country was poor and plagued by civil wars. Yet he has built his regime's legitimacy on a policy of national unification, the assimilation of all of Oman to the oil rentier state framework, and of his state to the person of the sultan, the incarnation of the country's "renaissance." This books seeks to understand the mechanisms of social and political perpetuation of authoritarianism in post-colonial states such as Oman. It shows how one monarchical power has built and constantly renewed its basis to meet the internal and external challenges threatening its stability. Yet this book also raises the question of what happens when one part of this model, namely an oil-rent economy, falters, with half the population under fifteen years of age and when the privileges enjoyed till recently may no longer be tenable. Valeri also sheds light on the strategies adopted and challenges faced by other Arab monarchies in the Persian Gulf, Morocco and Jordan.

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Released June 22, 2009
ISBN13 9780199326839
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 256
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   498 g
Language English  

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