Talk:Rentier state

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Interesting. Can someone include some examples of rentier states? Pelago 14:40, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Pretty much all of the middle eastern oil states; countries which export loads of oil, have negligable other industries of their own, and are pretty much exclusively military or royal dictatorships. -- Tom Anderson 2006-11-10 19:20 +0000

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The rentier state theory is one of several explanations for the failure to develop of the middle eastern countries; there are others, but it's so long since i read about this stuff that i've forgotten them. It would be really good if we had a link from here to those other theories, or to a page like "political history of the middle east" or something. -- Tom Anderson 2006-11-10 19:20 +0000