Businessmen in Arms

Elke Grawert is a political scientist and senior researcher at Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC). She teaches at the Institute of Political Science and Sociology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn, Germany. Zeinab Abul-Magd is an associate professor of Middle Eastern history at Oberlin College and the American University in Cairo. Contributors:Ismet Akça, assistant professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey.Atta El-Battahani, professor of political science, University of Khartoum, Sudan, and Senior Advisor for International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) in Sudan. Philippe Droz-Vincent, professor of political science and international relations, Sciences-Po Grenoble, France.Kevan Harris, sociologist and associate director at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University. Shana Marshall, associate director of the Institute for Middle East Studies, George Washington University. Adam C. Seitz, senior research associate for Middle East Studies at the Marine Corps University, Quantico, VA. Ayesha Siddiqa, independent social scientist based in Pakistan. The first Pakistan fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, she also served with the Pakistan Navy as Director of Naval Research.Sherifa Zuhur, senior analyst at the Middle East Desk for Wikistrat and associate editor of the Review of Middle East Studies for Contemporary Conflicts and Systems.

• List of Figures and TablesForewordAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Political Economy of the Military and Non-State Armed Groups in the Middle East and North Africa, by Elke GrawertChapter 1: Egypt’s Adaptable Officers: Business, Nationalism, and Discontent, by Zeinab Abul-MagdChapter 2: Businessmen in Boots – Pakistan’s Entrepreneurial Military, by Ayesha SiddiqaChapter 3: The Conglomerate of the Turkish Military (OYAK) and the Dynamics of Turkish Capitalism, by Ismet AkçaChapter 4: All the Sepah's Men: Iran's Revolutionary Guards in Theory and Practice, by Kevan HarrisChapter 5: Jordan’s Military-Industrial Sector: Maintaining Institutional Prestige in the Era of Neoliberalism, by Shana MarshallChapter 6: Civil-Military Relations in Sudan: Negotiating Political Transition in a Turbulent Economy, by Atta El-BattahaniChapter 7: Patronage Politics in Transition: Political and Economic Interests of the Yemeni Armed Forces, by Adam C. SeitzChapter 8: Libya’s Tentative Stat

The first truly comparative analysis of the political economy of armed forces in the MENA, this fine collection reveals militarization’s widespread, profound and devastating consequences for the region’s development.