Cover

Front Matter

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Chapter (1-6)

Introduction From Arab Socialism to Neo-liberalism: The Politics of Immiseration

An Overview of the AW

From Arab Socialism Onwards

Chapter 1: Arab socialism in retrospect

Chapter 2: The devastation of peace in Egypt

Chapter 3: The infeasibility of revolution in Syria

Chapter 4: Iraq then and now

Chapter 5: The perverse transformation

Chapter 6: Permanent war in the Arab World

Postscript

1. Arab Socialism in Retrospect

State-Led Development

The State Bourgeois Class

Colonial Plunder and Beyond

A Frail Arab Bourgeois Class

The Military in Power

Arab Socialism

Closing Comment

Annex

2. The Devastation of Peace in Egypt

A Glimpse into Economic History

Empirics and Financial Short-Leashing

A Synopsis of Macro Policy

The Necrotrophic Relationship

Uprising or Revolution?

Uprising without Socialist Ideology

Closing Comments

3. The Infeasibility of Revolution in Syria

A Note on State and Class

The Debate on Reforms

Monumental Obfuscation

The Syrian Regime: Transformation by Successive Defeat

Post-Independence Syria

The Beginning of Decline

The Empirics of Cosy Pragmatism

Accelerated Reforms Beginning in 2000

Misallocating Resources

Closing Comments

4. Iraq – Then and Now

Causation

Empirical Note on the Impact of the War

Iraq and the Ugly Face of Globalisation

Closing Comment

5. The Perverse Transformation

Choice Versus Structural (Marxist) Theory

A Comparison with Marxist-Structuralism at a Glance

Neoclassical Chimera

A Non-Price Explanation of Proletarianisation

The Marxian Critique

The Concrete Condition

Resituating the Issue

Working-Class Fragmentation and Identity

A Closing Comment

6. Permanent War in the Arab World

War and the Comprador Class

Barbaric Development

Faltering Productive Capacity

Closing Comment

Postscript

End Matter

Bibliography

Index