Group Conflict and Political Mobilization in Bahrain and the Arab Gulf: Rethinking the Rentier State

by Justin Gengler

Book Overview

The oil-producing states of the Arab Gulf are said to sink or swim on their capacity for political appeasement through economic redistribution. Yet, during the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring, in Bahrain and all across the Arab Gulf, ordinary citizens showed an unexpected enthusiasm for political protest directed against governments widely assumed to have co-opted their support with oil revenues. Justin Gengler draws on the first-ever mass...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253016800
• ISBN13: 9780253016805
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher