Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Contemporary Issues in the Middle East, KADIOĞLU İBRAHİM AYTAÇ, Editör, Sakarya Üniversitesi Yayınları, Sakarya, ss.143-161, 2025
This chapter challenges exceptionalist paradigms of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by re-embedding the region's states within the structural dynamics of global capitalism. Drawing upon a Gramscian historical materialist perspective, the study theorises the capitalist state not as a neutral apparatus, but as a historically situated social relation that condenses class forces and mediates global processes of capital accumulation. By transcending static typologies such as the rentier state and state capitalism, the analysis explores how neoliberal restructuring, sovereign debt regimes, and imperial entanglements have transformed state forms across the region. Through a comparative examination of militarised neoliberalism in Egypt, dependent democratisation in Tunisia, and financialised rentierism in the Gulf monarchies, the chapter demonstrates that authoritarian consolidation represents a strategic, albeit unstable, resolution to crises of rule within the global periphery. Ultimately, the study highlights the persistent contradictions of authoritarian neoliberalism and the generative potential of counter-hegemonic resistance, positing MENA states as constitutive and contested arenas of global capitalist reproduction.