Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Glossary -- 1 Overview -- The MENA's special colonial legacy -- The dialectics of globalization -- Capitalist legacies -- Varying national responses to the Washington Consensus -- Suggestions for further reading -- 2 The challenges of globalization -- Strategic rents: foreign aid and arms transfers -- Oil revenues -- Trade -- Capital flows -- The debt problem -- Pressures for reform -- Suggestions for further reading -- 3 Political capacities and capitalist legacies -- The state of reform -- The reform of the state -- The extractive capability -- Accountability and transparency -- Capitalist legacies -- Types of commercial banking structures -- Exclusively public sector banking systems -- Mixed ownership, but still heavily concentrated in public sector banks -- Predominantly private sector and concentrated -- Predominantly private and relatively deconcentrated -- Structural power of capital - summary -- Challenges of globalization -- Suggestions for further reading -- 4 Bunker states -- Algeria's bunker -- Algerian springtime: reform and democracy (1989-1991) -- Reforms from the bunker (1994- ) -- Lessons for other bunker regimes -- Lessons from Syria -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for further reading -- 5 Bully praetorian states -- From Paris to tiger along the Nile? -- Impediments to structural adjustment: political deliberalization -- Constitutional/legal/regulatory structure -- Executive branch -- The military -- Crony capitalism -- The limited power of capital -- Prospects for bully praetorian republics -- Suggestions for further reading -- 6 Globalizing monarchies -- Morocco -- Saudi Arabia -- The bellwether monarchies: Kuwait and Jordan -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for further reading.

7 Fragmented democracies -- Real democracies in the MENA? -- Israel -- Turkey -- Iran -- Lebanon -- Conclusion -- Suggestions for further reading -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Index.