This paper argues that trade and capital account reforms within autocracies underlie the primacy of foreign currency procurement. A longitudinal comparison of four countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan) in the Middle East and North Africa region shows a historical sequencing of reforms. In the 1960s and 1970s, the foreign exchange scarcity was managed primarily by rising restrictions, accumulation of debt and a number of unilateral country‐specific strategies, including broader economic openings (infitah) and isolated capital account liberalizations. However, IMF‐friendly reforms (orthodox trade liberalization) only became a political option in the context of the extreme fiscal scarcity of the 1980s and 1990s, after the ...
While in an initial legal and academic anti-corruption wave corruption itself was at the center of a...
How can weaker states influence stronger ones? This article offers a case study of one recent exerci...
Various concepts ascribe key roles to emerging non‐OECD countries in regional and global polit...
The literature on institutional determinants of intra‐state violence commonly asserts that the...
According to quantitative studies, oil is the only resource that is robustly linked to civil war ons...
This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post‐conflict Algeria. While the bloody...
South America’s security agenda demands the simultaneous management of domestic crises, interstate c...
This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characte...
This paper studies the oil‐violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consid...
The present article aims to analyze the effects of high oil prices since 2003 on Iran. The theoretic...
Algeria’s intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely...
Despite a growing interest in African political parties, no comparative analyses of political ideolo...
This paper builds on institutional analysis to generate new conclusions about the economic viability...
The productivity and competitiveness of local firms in non‐OECD countries depends as much on t...
The Iranian revolution still appears to be a puzzle for theoretical approaches linking political ins...
While in an initial legal and academic anti-corruption wave corruption itself was at the center of a...
How can weaker states influence stronger ones? This article offers a case study of one recent exerci...
Various concepts ascribe key roles to emerging non‐OECD countries in regional and global polit...
The literature on institutional determinants of intra‐state violence commonly asserts that the...
According to quantitative studies, oil is the only resource that is robustly linked to civil war ons...
This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post‐conflict Algeria. While the bloody...
South America’s security agenda demands the simultaneous management of domestic crises, interstate c...
This paper studies the causal factors that make the oil-state Venezuela, which is generally characte...
This paper studies the oil‐violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consid...
The present article aims to analyze the effects of high oil prices since 2003 on Iran. The theoretic...
Algeria’s intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely...
Despite a growing interest in African political parties, no comparative analyses of political ideolo...
This paper builds on institutional analysis to generate new conclusions about the economic viability...
The productivity and competitiveness of local firms in non‐OECD countries depends as much on t...
The Iranian revolution still appears to be a puzzle for theoretical approaches linking political ins...
While in an initial legal and academic anti-corruption wave corruption itself was at the center of a...
How can weaker states influence stronger ones? This article offers a case study of one recent exerci...
Various concepts ascribe key roles to emerging non‐OECD countries in regional and global polit...