Resources and the Political Economy of State Fragility in Conflict States: Iraq and Somalia

Ghassan Dibeh

No RP2008-35, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper studies state failure and governance in two conflict-states in the Middle East: Iraq and Somalia. Iraq is currently undergoing a social experiment under which a new form of government is being constructed after the passage of autocratic rule. The government envisaged is a consociational democratic state designed a priori as a political mechanism for the redistribution of resources, mainly oil. Somalia represents a stateless society or anarchy.

Keywords: Democratization; Failed states; Natural resources; Political science; War (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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