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An Emerging Arab Social Contract

Khalaf, Abdulhadi LU (2011) In Energy & Geopolitical Risks 2(2). p.13-17
Abstract
While it is too early to speculate on the long-term results of the events, the revolutions have already discredited certain assumptions about the Arab world. The first are those assertions suggesting that Arab rulers have engaged their people in a golden bargain, where the people trade off their citizenship entitlements and democratic rights in exchange for the rulers providing welfare, safeguard national integrity, and/or stability. The second assertion is found in the works of some leading Western Academics who represented the 'Arab' as “culturally incapable of adjusting to the prerequisites and implications of modern state-building,” and considered

that “Arab culture is inherently opposed to fundamental ideals of modernity…”
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Arab Spring, State-building, sociology, sociologi
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Popular Science
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Energy & Geopolitical Risks
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2
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2
pages
13 - 17
publisher
MEES Economic Survey
language
English
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yes
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1cb49b39-005f-46ea-adc5-75c1a7e4427f (old id 2204729)
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http://www.mees.com/system/assets/000/000/827/original_Geopolitical_Risk_FEB2011-5.pdf
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that “Arab culture is inherently opposed to fundamental ideals of modernity…”}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{13--17}},
  publisher    = {{MEES Economic Survey}},
  series       = {{Energy & Geopolitical Risks}},
  title        = {{An Emerging Arab Social Contract}},
  url          = {{http://www.mees.com/system/assets/000/000/827/original_Geopolitical_Risk_FEB2011-5.pdf}},
  volume       = {{2}},
  year         = {{2011}},
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