SHAPING THE SAUDI STATE: HUMAN AGENCY'S SHIFTING ROLE IN RENTIER-STATE FORMATION

State Formation Processes in Rentier States:

State filters in state residuated lattices

In this paper, we introduce the notions of prime state filters, obstinate state filters, and primary state filters in state residuated lattices and study some properties of them. Several characterizations of these state filters are given and the prime state filter theorem is proved. In addition, we investigate the relations between them.

Dutch Disease, Rentier State, and Resource Curse: A Characteristic Triangle and Ultra Challenge in the Iranian Economy

O wning Natural resources has been beneficial for some Countries, but hurtful for some others. Optimum management of natural resources in the former group has enhanced economic growth, bad governance, however, has led to Dutch Disease in the latter group. Bad governance in Iran has created Dutch Disease, Rentier State, and Resource Curse, DRR as a characteristic triangle. As the Iran...

Studying the State through State Formation

or ideal appearance of the state from its material reality, in taking for granted this distinction, will fail to understand it. the task of a theory of the state is not to clarify such distinctions but to historicize them.77 in this view, history is useful not as a reservoir of “cases” but as a reservoir of processes that help researchers overcome analytic dichotomies that were once useful but ...

Considering Existence in Human Life's State of Being Meaningful

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