All Outputs (3)

'Engineers of Jihad' (2007)
Preprint / Working Paper

We find that graduates from subjects such as science, engineering, and medicine are strongly overrepresented among Islamist movements in the Muslim world, though not among the extremist Islamic groups which have emerged in Western countries more rece... Read More about 'Engineers of Jihad'.

'Shaping the Saudi State: human agency's shifting role in rentier-state formation' (2007)
Journal Article

There are two established ways of recounting the emergence of the modern Gulf oil monarchies. The social scientific explanation describes anonymous structural forces, the “resource curse” of the “rentier state,” and how these have shaped politics and... Read More about 'Shaping the Saudi State: human agency's shifting role in rentier-state formation'.

'The GCC and Arab economic integration: a new paradigm' (2007)
Journal Article