Summers of discontent: business-state politics in the Middle East -- Organizing first: business and political authority during state formation -- Politics and profits -- Crises at century's end -- Is business the solution?
Summary
Moore's book is the first to examine relations between state authority and elite business representation in the Middle East. By considering the Kuwait and Jordan cases, he concludes that unleashing the private sector alone is insufficient to change current political and economic arrangements when established political infrastructures remain in place
