Laura Ruiz de Elvira is a permanent researcher at the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in the CEPED research unit. Her research interests focus on civil society, commitment and social movements, political crisis and social policies, namely in Syria and Tunisia.Christoph H. Schwarz is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Network Reconfigurations at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) at Philipps-University Marburg. His research interest include the moral economy of political protest, youth, education, gender relations, and migration.Irene Weipert-Fenner is a senior research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). She has worked on authoritarian regimes, political transformation and social movements in Egypt and Tunisia.

• Introduction - Networks of Dependency, A Research Perspective, Laura Ruiz de Elvira, Christoph H. Schwarz, Irene Weipert-Fenner Part I: Conceptualising Privilege and Dependency in the MENA Region 1. Multi-layered Dependency: Understanding the Transnational Dimension of Favouritism in the Middle East, Sina Birkholz 2. Theorizing Politics, Patronage, and Corruption in the Arab Monarchies of the Gulf, Matthew Gray Part II: Patron-Client Relations in the Neoliberal Era 3. Redistributive Politics, Clientelism and Political Patronage Under the AKP, Esra Çeviker Gürakar and Tuba Bircan 4. Cairo’s New Old Faces: Redrawing the Map of Patron-Client Networks after 2011, Mohamed Fahmy Menza 5. Neoliberal Reforms, Protests and Enforced Patron-Client Relations in Tunisia and Egypt, Mohamed Yaghi 6. The Reconfiguration of Clientelism and the Failure of Vote Buying in Lebanon, Tine Gade Part III: The Role of Brokers for Networks of Dependency 7. Centre-Periphery Relations and the Reconfiguration of the State’s Patronage Networks in the Rif, Ángela Suárez-Collado 8. Networks of Dependencies and Governmentality in Southern Lebanon: Development and Re-Construction as Tools for Hezbollah’s Clientelist Strategies, Diana Zeidan 9. Patronage and Clientelism in Jordan: The Monarchy and the Tribes in the Wake of the "Arab Spring", Luis Melián Rodríguez

Laura Ruiz de Elvira is a permanent researcher at the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in the CEPED research unit. Her research interests focus on civil society, commitment and social movements, political crisis and social policies, namely in Syria and Tunisia.Christoph H. Schwarz is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Network Reconfigurations at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) at Philipps-University Marburg. His research interest include the moral economy of political protest, youth, education, gender relations, and migration.Irene Weipert-Fenner is a senior research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). She has worked on authoritarian regimes, political transformation and social movements in Egypt and Tunisia.

• Introduction - Networks of Dependency, A Research Perspective, Laura Ruiz de Elvira, Christoph H. Schwarz, Irene Weipert-Fenner Part I: Conceptualising Privilege and Dependency in the MENA Region 1. Multi-layered Dependency: Understanding the Transnational Dimension of Favouritism in the Middle East, Sina Birkholz 2. Theorizing Politics, Patronage, and Corruption in the Arab Monarchies of the Gulf, Matthew Gray Part II: Patron-Client Relations in the Neoliberal Era 3. Redistributive Politics, Clientelism and Political Patronage Under the AKP, Esra Çeviker Gürakar and Tuba Bircan 4. Cairo’s New Old Faces: Redrawing the Map of Patron-Client Networks after 2011, Mohamed Fahmy Menza 5. Neoliberal Reforms, Protests and Enforced Patron-Client Relations in Tunisia and Egypt, Mohamed Yaghi 6. The Reconfiguration of Clientelism and the Failure of Vote Buying in Lebanon, Tine Gade Part III: The Role of Brokers for Networks of Dependency 7. Centre-Periphery Relations and the Reconfiguration of the State’s Patronage Networks in the Rif, Ángela Suárez-Collado 8. Networks of Dependencies and Governmentality in Southern Lebanon: Development and Re-Construction as Tools for Hezbollah’s Clientelist Strategies, Diana Zeidan 9. Patronage and Clientelism in Jordan: The Monarchy and the Tribes in the Wake of the "Arab Spring", Luis Melián Rodríguez

Laura Ruiz de Elvira is a permanent researcher at the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in the CEPED research unit. Her research interests focus on civil society, commitment and social movements, political crisis and social policies, namely in Syria and Tunisia.Christoph H. Schwarz is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Network Reconfigurations at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) at Philipps-University Marburg. His research interest include the moral economy of political protest, youth, education, gender relations, and migration.Irene Weipert-Fenner is a senior research fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF). She has worked on authoritarian regimes, political transformation and social movements in Egypt and Tunisia.

• Introduction - Networks of Dependency, A Research Perspective, Laura Ruiz de Elvira, Christoph H. Schwarz, Irene Weipert-Fenner Part I: Conceptualising Privilege and Dependency in the MENA Region 1. Multi-layered Dependency: Understanding the Transnational Dimension of Favouritism in the Middle East, Sina Birkholz 2. Theorizing Politics, Patronage, and Corruption in the Arab Monarchies of the Gulf, Matthew Gray Part II: Patron-Client Relations in the Neoliberal Era 3. Redistributive Politics, Clientelism and Political Patronage Under the AKP, Esra Çeviker Gürakar and Tuba Bircan 4. Cairo’s New Old Faces: Redrawing the Map of Patron-Client Networks after 2011, Mohamed Fahmy Menza 5. Neoliberal Reforms, Protests and Enforced Patron-Client Relations in Tunisia and Egypt, Mohamed Yaghi 6. The Reconfiguration of Clientelism and the Failure of Vote Buying in Lebanon, Tine Gade Part III: The Role of Brokers for Networks of Dependency 7. Centre-Periphery Relations and the Reconfiguration of the State’s Patronage Networks in the Rif, Ángela Suárez-Collado 8. Networks of Dependencies and Governmentality in Southern Lebanon: Development and Re-Construction as Tools for Hezbollah’s Clientelist Strategies, Diana Zeidan 9. Patronage and Clientelism in Jordan: The Monarchy and the Tribes in the Wake of the "Arab Spring", Luis Melián Rodríguez