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Book SynopsisKiren Aziz Chaudhry shows how state and market institutions are created and transformed in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, two countries that typify labor and oil exporters in the developing worlds.
Trade ReviewAn interesting and thought-provoking book, well researched and well argued. It fills a vacuum in studies on both the Middle East and political economy and is recommended to all those who are interested in these fields.
* Millennium: Journal of International Studies *
Chaudry has written three books in one. The most important is an account of the connection between Saudi Arabia's government and economy. Using previously unknown Saudi archival material, her chapter on the 1914–73 period is spectacularly rich.
* Choice *
Chaudry is a first-rate political economist who does careful and methodical research.... In her hands, this fascinating subject causes one to rethink theories about social modernization, economic development, and political change.
* Perspectives on Political Science *
Drawing on Saudi sources never before used by scholars, Chaudry has written a brief but definitive account on the connection between the Saudi state and economy.
* Middle East Quarterly *
This is a solid two-case study that instead of the usual grand theories offers more contextual and multicausal explanations.
* Foreign Affairs *
What is most remarkable about this volume is that it makes a valuable theoretical contribution while also containing such a rich and much needed account of the political economic development of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Yemen Arab Republic.... A rich odyssey through the political and the economic histories of these two countries, well-documented and cogently written.
* Middle East Policy *
