Afghanistan beyond the fog of war persistent failure of a rentier state by Fredholm, Michael

Table of Contents: “…The Abdur Rahman model -- Rentier state, modernization, and Pashtunisation -- Kabul University, Islamic extremism, and Marxism -- Civil wars and Soviet intervention -- Mujahidin infighting, Taliban takeover, and regional and ethnic fragmentation -- War on terror and reconstruction of national identity -- Nation-building in post-Taliban Afghanistan -- Afghanistan in transition -- Obama's drawdown strategy and the Afghan national defence and security forces -- The rentier state in the twenty-first century…”

Contemporary Persian Gulf essays in honour of Gulshan Dietl, Prakash Chandra Jain and Girijesh Pant

Resistance to globalization political struggle and cultural resilience in the Middle East, Russia, and Latin America

Table of Contents: “…Painful Transition of a Rentier State: Globalization and Neopopulist Regression in Venezuela / Andreas Boeckh -- 11. …”

Routledge handbook of contemporary Malaysia

Table of Contents: “…Natural Resource Extraction and Political Dependency: Malaysia as a Rentier State Helena Varkkey 16. Rent-seeking and Money Politics in Malaysia: Ethnicity, Cronyism and Class Jeff Tan 17. …”