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| Title: | | Resources and the political economy of state fragility in conflict states: Iraq and Somalia  |
| Authors: | | Dibeh, Ghassan |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Research paper / UNU-WIDER 2008.35 |
| 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. The paper argues that in resource-rich countries such as Iraq, the consociational project leads to an Olson-type rent-seeking confessional behaviour that hampers economic growth and development. The rent-seeking behaviour in Iraq is fuelling the insurgency that perceives the consociational system as a grabbing. |
| Subjects: | | fragile states political economy resources |
| JEL: | | D72 D74 N45 N55 |
| ISBN: | | 978-92-9230-081-4 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | WIDER Research Papers, United Nations University (UNU)
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