Author
Shana Marshall
Former Junior Research Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University in 2011-12. Currently, she is the Associate Director and Research Instructor at the Institute for Middle East Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington Univeristy.
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The New Politics of Patronage: The Arms Trade and Clientelism in the Arab World
Shana Marshall
Working Paper 4, November 2012
Summary
Contemporary scholarship on the Arab world generally concentrates on the largest and most high-profile regional sources of state largess, oil revenues and foreign aid. This Working Paper focuses on a less visible source of state patronage—the international arms trade. Dr. Shana Marshall identifies some of the interests and institutions involved in the arms trade between the United States and the Arab world with the aim of exploring how the variation in the design of defence contract requirements reflects the unique patronage strategies adopted by ruling elites in the Arab world. To this end, Dr. Marshall examines two pairs of contrasting cases: Egypt and Jordan, where the defense contracts have buttressed the resources and capacities of state-run military producers, versus Saudi Arabia and the UAE, where defense dollars have financed a range of commercial enterprises owned by private sector businessmen.
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