Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89589 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 61.2013
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper argues that the so-called Arab spring is part of a tectonic shift which signals the frailty of the Arab state system as such. Countries benefitting from oil and gas rents have been more resilient, because of their potential to create systems of incentives and disincentives in order to prevent disruptive social change. Islamism, whose emergence is connected with rentier state dynamics is, at the same time, an opportunity and a threat for the survival of the Arab state and, in general, of the Arab states system. In this context, national oil companies can increasingly be conceptualized not merely as instruments of the state, but as bulwarks of nation-state legitimacy in a period of chaos.
Subjects: 
Oil
Energy
Political Economy
MENA
Globalization
Arab Spring
JEL: 
F6
N5
O1
P1
Q3
Q4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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