Overview of Globalization in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) - 2nd half
 
I. Types of MENA regimes and responses (mainly Henry-Springborg book)
a. types of regimes: legacies of colonial situations
i. bunkers: Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen

ii. bullies: Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine

iii. monarchies: Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

iv. quasi-democracies: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey

b. how they got there, after revolutions or military coups in some cases, and the consequences for their respectively business communities.

c. Comparing political capacities: taxation, accountability, and transparency

d. Contract-intensive Money (CIM) as an indicator of the adequacy of institutions to protect property rights and guarantee contracts and the rule of law? (H&S, p. 79)

e. Transparency: free flows of information for potential foreign or even local investors?

 
II. Bunkers and Bullies
 
a. how do they differ from one another?
 
 
b. what are their distinctive strengths and weaknesses for
i. stabilizing their economies in the 1980s and 1990s?
ii. ongoing structural adjustment programs concerning various sectors of the economy
iii. governance reform? 
iv. managing oil revenues (Algeria, Libya, Iraq, and to a lesser extent Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Yemen)
 
c. what chances do they have to change their authoritarian ways? - is Turkey the future of Egypt or Algeria?
 

III. Monarchies and Conditional Democracies

 
a. comparisons of private sectors and why they tend to be larger than those of the bullies or bunkers.
 
b. oligopolies and strategies of reform
 
c. peculiar convergences between monarchies, Islamic finance, and the Washington Consensus
 
d. does governance really make a difference for developing countries; if so, how?
 
e. the critical role of information
 
f. problems of corruption, transparency, and competitiveness.