Mapping the political economy of neoliberalism in the Arab countries of the Middle East

Adam Hanieh

Chapter 12 in Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy, 2025, pp 191-208 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter presents a historical survey of neoliberal policies in the Arab countries of the Middle East, and their impact on the political economy of class and state formation in the region. It shows how such policies have transformed social power, driving forward new ownership structures and re-working the institutional forms of the state. These changes have accentuated the polarization of wealth and power at both the national and regional scales. Although the contours of neoliberal reform have taken distinctive paths across countries, the overall result of this transformation has been an increasing differentiation and unevenness within the region as a whole. These trends provide important insights into the varied ways that the Middle East experienced the global economic crisis of 2008–2009, the uprisings that swept the region in 2011 and 2018 and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Neoliberalism; Authoritarianism; Revolution; Crisis; Conflict; Middle East; Arab nationalism; War (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803921181
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