Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the rentier bargain at the trial of the Arab uprisings; 2 Rethinking the politics of distributive states: lessons from the Arab uprisings; 3 Youth and the Arab revolutions; 4 Guest workers as a barrier to democratization in oil-rich countries; 5 Back to the Seventies? Saudi youth and the kingdom's political economy after the Arab uprisings; 6 Kuwait: the politics of crisis; 7 Bahrain: rentierism and beyond
8 Iraq: can a fractured rentier state be rebuilt?9 Regime legitimation in Algeria after the Arab Spring: reclaiming ownership to "revolution"; 10 Libya: the dynamics of the 2011 revolution; 11 On the economic causes of the Arab Spring and its possible developments; Index
