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

Why don't you try and start making the list? I'm sure it would be really useful. Let's see ... Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Syria, Jordan, ...

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

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