RT @HBaumannLiv: I've been trying to grapple with what's new under MBS and what's not, and how useful (or not useful) the go-to theory of p…
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I've been trying to grapple with what's new under MBS and what's not, and how useful (or not useful) the go-to theory of political science on the Gulf is - rentier state theory. https://t.co/LdaZEwMRUh
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Can't quite resist plugging my own work on MBS's economic plans, in which I interpreted rentier state theory as a form of Eurocentric institutionalism. Chimes well with @davidwearing's findings. https://t.co/LdaZEwMRUh
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@ford_nik I'm focusing just on the sector and basically trying to posit that the international market is an "actor" in the Strange-ian sense that's left out of the literature since it tends to only look at domestic causes. Influenced by https://t.co/zhj9Nw