Pete W Moore
Biographic Data
| ID | 4163513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pete W Moore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pete W |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore |
| SIGNATURE | MOORE P W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Case Western Reserve University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reconceptualizing Security and Political Economy in the Modern Middle East
We prioritize reorienting prevailing concepts of security within the contemporary Middle East and North Africa through a critical political economy framework. The practices of both waging war and preparing for war – that is, war-making – generate profound consequences for regional societies, but they also remain poorly understood. We advance a more reflexive paradigm that emphasizes how political actors define notions of security on their own ter…
The Fortress State: Extreme Militarization in Jordan
Jordan is one of the most militarized states in the world. Why? Traditional explanations hold that the kingdom’s bloated armed forces and security institutions reflect authoritarian dynamics and frequent regional wars. However, such popular arguments falter. Jordan has not been a primary combatant to any major conflict for a half-century, and it is no more authoritarian than other Arab autocracies. This essay instead suggests that militarization …
A Political-Economic History of Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate: Authoritarian State-Building and Fiscal Crisis
Popular policy accounts of Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate (GID) commonly detach it from the country's history, society, and political economy. By isolating and focusing on the GID's role as protector of the monarchy, one loses sight of other important effects of its historical evolution. This article explores the GID's origins in the late 1960s and 1970s and how it has evolved. It positions Jordan's security services as institutional a…
The Fiscal Politics of Rebellious Grievance in the Arab World: Egypt and Jordan in Comparative Perspective
In the aftermath of the 2011 protests, narrow economic arguments for revolt have proliferated. This essay broadens the debate by arguing that states’ latent fiscal weakness is an important source of enduring rebellious grievance in the Arab World. The essay makes this claim through a comparison of fiscal decline and policy response in Jordan and Egypt. Both states have endured fiscal crises and periodic revolt starting in the late 1970s. Both reg…
Politics and Society in the Contemporary Middle East
This cutting-edge, and at the same time lively and accessible, examination of the domestic politics of the Middle East has been carefully designed to meet the needs of the university classroom. Eight thematic chapters introduce the subject and explore the region-wide dynamics of governments and oppositions, international politics, political economy, civil society, religion and politics, identity politics, and gender and family issues. These theme…
The Bread Revolutions of 2011: Teaching Political Economies of the Middle East
Whether it was bread-wielding Tunisians, marching Suez workers, or Yemeni protestors chanting against corruption, the 2011 Arab uprisings put political economy issues front and center. Indeed, a critical thread throughout the region's uprisings has been the simple question: “where has the money gone?” And though the field of political economy is multifaceted, the basic refrain “follow the money” unites most of it. Having students engage and debat…
Politics and Society in the Contemporary Middle East
A cutting-edge, yet lively and accessible, examination of the domestic politics of the contemporary Middle East
Beyond Boom and Bust: External Rents, Durable Authoritarianism, and Institutional Adaptation in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Struggles Under Authoritarianism: Regimes, States, and Professional Associations in the Arab World
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QIZs, FTAs, Usaid and the Mefta: A Political Economy of Acronyms
Doing Business in the Middle East: Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait
1. Summers of discontent: business-state politics in the Middle East 2. Organizing first: business and political authority during state formation 3. Politics and profits 4. Crises at century's end 5. Is business the solution
Doing Business in the Middle East: Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait
Is business the solution to the problems of the Middle East? Some economists and policymakers argue that unleashing the Arab private sector is the key to sustainable growth and more liberal politics. Pete Moore's book is the first to examine relations between state authority and elite business representation in the region. By analysing the Kuwait and Jordan cases, he considers why organised business in Kuwait has been able to coordinate policy re…
Commerce and Conflict: U.S. Effort to Counter Terrorism with Trade May Backfire
Rentier fiscal crisis and regime stability: Business-state relations in the Gulf
What Makes Successful Business Lobbies? Business Associations and the Rentier State in Jordan and Kuwait
Whether neoliberal or statist oriented, most social scientists concur that business-state relations are key variables in a developing country's economic performance.1 Recent studies of business-state relations in the developing world derive from analysis of the developmental Asian state and emphasize bureaucratic insulation and autonomy.2 Middle East comparativists have employed a similar top-down method that stresses the transformative effects e…
Beyond Boom and Bust: External Rents, Durable Authoritarianism, and Institutional Adaptation in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
A Political-Economic History of Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate: Authoritarian State-Building and Fiscal Crisis
Popular policy accounts of Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate (GID) commonly detach it from the country's history, society, and political economy. By isolating and focusing on the GID's role as protector of the monarchy, one loses sight of other important effects of its historical evolution. This article explores the GID's origins in the late 1960s and 1970s and how it has evolved. It positions Jordan's security services as institutional a…
What Makes Successful Business Lobbies? Business Associations and the Rentier State in Jordan and Kuwait
Whether neoliberal or statist oriented, most social scientists concur that business-state relations are key variables in a developing country's economic performance.1 Recent studies of business-state relations in the developing world derive from analysis of the developmental Asian state and emphasize bureaucratic insulation and autonomy.2 Middle East comparativists have employed a similar top-down method that stresses the transformative effects e…
Rentier fiscal crisis and regime stability: Business-state relations in the Gulf
Commerce and Conflict: U.S. Effort to Counter Terrorism with Trade May Backfire
The Bread Revolutions of 2011: Teaching Political Economies of the Middle East
Whether it was bread-wielding Tunisians, marching Suez workers, or Yemeni protestors chanting against corruption, the 2011 Arab uprisings put political economy issues front and center. Indeed, a critical thread throughout the region's uprisings has been the simple question: “where has the money gone?” And though the field of political economy is multifaceted, the basic refrain “follow the money” unites most of it. Having students engage and debat…
Struggles Under Authoritarianism: Regimes, States, and Professional Associations in the Arab World
Please open the PDF to view the article
What Makes Successful Business Lobbies? Business Associations and the Rentier State in Jordan and Kuwait
Whether neoliberal or statist oriented, most social scientists concur that business-state relations are key variables in a developing country's economic performance.1 Recent studies of business-state relations in the developing world derive from analysis of the developmental Asian state and emphasize bureaucratic insulation and autonomy.2 Middle East comparativists have employed a similar top-down method that stresses the transformative effects e…
Rentier fiscal crisis and regime stability: Business-state relations in the Gulf
Commerce and Conflict: U.S. Effort to Counter Terrorism with Trade May Backfire
Doing Business in the Middle East: Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait
1. Summers of discontent: business-state politics in the Middle East 2. Organizing first: business and political authority during state formation 3. Politics and profits 4. Crises at century's end 5. Is business the solution
Doing Business in the Middle East: Politics and Economic Crisis in Jordan and Kuwait
Is business the solution to the problems of the Middle East? Some economists and policymakers argue that unleashing the Arab private sector is the key to sustainable growth and more liberal politics. Pete Moore's book is the first to examine relations between state authority and elite business representation in the region. By analysing the Kuwait and Jordan cases, he considers why organised business in Kuwait has been able to coordinate policy re…
QIZs, FTAs, Usaid and the Mefta: A Political Economy of Acronyms
Struggles Under Authoritarianism: Regimes, States, and Professional Associations in the Arab World
Please open the PDF to view the article
Beyond Boom and Bust: External Rents, Durable Authoritarianism, and Institutional Adaptation in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Politics and Society in the Contemporary Middle East
A cutting-edge, yet lively and accessible, examination of the domestic politics of the contemporary Middle East
Politics and Society in the Contemporary Middle East
This cutting-edge, and at the same time lively and accessible, examination of the domestic politics of the Middle East has been carefully designed to meet the needs of the university classroom. Eight thematic chapters introduce the subject and explore the region-wide dynamics of governments and oppositions, international politics, political economy, civil society, religion and politics, identity politics, and gender and family issues. These theme…
The Bread Revolutions of 2011: Teaching Political Economies of the Middle East
Whether it was bread-wielding Tunisians, marching Suez workers, or Yemeni protestors chanting against corruption, the 2011 Arab uprisings put political economy issues front and center. Indeed, a critical thread throughout the region's uprisings has been the simple question: “where has the money gone?” And though the field of political economy is multifaceted, the basic refrain “follow the money” unites most of it. Having students engage and debat…
The Fiscal Politics of Rebellious Grievance in the Arab World: Egypt and Jordan in Comparative Perspective
In the aftermath of the 2011 protests, narrow economic arguments for revolt have proliferated. This essay broadens the debate by arguing that states’ latent fiscal weakness is an important source of enduring rebellious grievance in the Arab World. The essay makes this claim through a comparison of fiscal decline and policy response in Jordan and Egypt. Both states have endured fiscal crises and periodic revolt starting in the late 1970s. Both reg…
A Political-Economic History of Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate: Authoritarian State-Building and Fiscal Crisis
Popular policy accounts of Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate (GID) commonly detach it from the country's history, society, and political economy. By isolating and focusing on the GID's role as protector of the monarchy, one loses sight of other important effects of its historical evolution. This article explores the GID's origins in the late 1960s and 1970s and how it has evolved. It positions Jordan's security services as institutional a…
Reconceptualizing Security and Political Economy in the Modern Middle East
We prioritize reorienting prevailing concepts of security within the contemporary Middle East and North Africa through a critical political economy framework. The practices of both waging war and preparing for war – that is, war-making – generate profound consequences for regional societies, but they also remain poorly understood. We advance a more reflexive paradigm that emphasizes how political actors define notions of security on their own ter…
The Fortress State: Extreme Militarization in Jordan
Jordan is one of the most militarized states in the world. Why? Traditional explanations hold that the kingdom’s bloated armed forces and security institutions reflect authoritarian dynamics and frequent regional wars. However, such popular arguments falter. Jordan has not been a primary combatant to any major conflict for a half-century, and it is no more authoritarian than other Arab autocracies. This essay instead suggests that militarization …
Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (12 works) · Economics (10 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (7 works) · International Development and Aid (6 works) · Middle East (6 works) · Economy (5 works)