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24.02.2020
Causes and Consequences of State Capacity in the MENA
About this event
24 February 2020 from 14:00 until 15:30
Causes and Consequences of State Capacity in the MENA
>Monday 24 February 2020 | 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
PSIA Seminar Room (S1), 28 rue des Saints-Pères
Open to PSIA students. Registration compulsory.
A lecture by Robert Springborg, Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London
Introduced and moderated by Nayef Al Shammari, Professor, Economics Department, Kuwait University ; Kuwait Program Visiting Professor, PSIA
Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies are underperforming because of historically and structurally rooted political weaknesses. Overgrown but weak MENA states embody what neo-institutional economists have labeled “limited access orders.” The deep states that gatekeep those orders have undermined the nominal, visible governmental institutions upon which effective governance and the rule of law must rest. Now these states face the daunting challenge of urgently diversifying non-sustainable rentier political economies, a task which thus far appears to be beyond their capacities
This event is presented by PSIA and the Kuwait Program at Sciences Po.