Kjetil Selvik is Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen. Bjørn Olav Utvik is Professor in Middle East History and Director of the Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Oslo.

'Oil States in the New Middle East: Uprisings and Stability is a good primer about the new conditions that are shaping the Gulf countries in the aftermath of the Arab springs. The book offers convincing critical analysis to students and scholars of Middle Eastern Studies, Oil and Politics, and International Politics.'Arab Studies Quarterly

• Chapter one: Introduction: The Rentier Bargain at the Trial of the Arab Uprisings Bjørn Olav Utvik Chapter two: Re-thinking the Politics of Distributive States: Lessons from the Arab Uprisings Gwenn Okruhlik Chapter three: Youth and the Arab revolutions Kjetil Bjorvatn and Jacob Høigilt Chapter four: Guest workers as a barrier to democratization in oil-rich countries Halvor Mehlum, Kalle Moene and Gry Østenstad Chapter five: Back to the 70s? Saudi Youth and the Kingdom’s Political Economy after the Arab Uprisings Steffen Hertog Chapter six: Kuwait – The Politics of Crisis Ghanim Alnajjar and Kjetil Selvik Chapter seven: Bahrain: Rentierism and Beyond Jane Kinninmont Chapter eight: Iraq: Can a Fractured Rentier State Be Rebuilt? Robert Springborg Chapter nine: Regime legitimation in Algeria after the Arab Spring: Reclaiming ownership to ‘revolution’ Jenny Holmsen Chapter ten: Libya: The Dynamics of the 2011 Revolution Alison Pargeter Chapter eleven: On the Economic Causes of the Arab Spring and its Possible Developments Giacomo Luciani

Kjetil Selvik is Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen. Bjørn Olav Utvik is Professor in Middle East History and Director of the Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Oslo.

'Oil States in the New Middle East: Uprisings and Stability is a good primer about the new conditions that are shaping the Gulf countries in the aftermath of the Arab springs. The book offers convincing critical analysis to students and scholars of Middle Eastern Studies, Oil and Politics, and International Politics.'Arab Studies Quarterly

• Chapter one: Introduction: The Rentier Bargain at the Trial of the Arab Uprisings Bjørn Olav Utvik Chapter two: Re-thinking the Politics of Distributive States: Lessons from the Arab Uprisings Gwenn Okruhlik Chapter three: Youth and the Arab revolutions Kjetil Bjorvatn and Jacob Høigilt Chapter four: Guest workers as a barrier to democratization in oil-rich countries Halvor Mehlum, Kalle Moene and Gry Østenstad Chapter five: Back to the 70s? Saudi Youth and the Kingdom’s Political Economy after the Arab Uprisings Steffen Hertog Chapter six: Kuwait – The Politics of Crisis Ghanim Alnajjar and Kjetil Selvik Chapter seven: Bahrain: Rentierism and Beyond Jane Kinninmont Chapter eight: Iraq: Can a Fractured Rentier State Be Rebuilt? Robert Springborg Chapter nine: Regime legitimation in Algeria after the Arab Spring: Reclaiming ownership to ‘revolution’ Jenny Holmsen Chapter ten: Libya: The Dynamics of the 2011 Revolution Alison Pargeter Chapter eleven: On the Economic Causes of the Arab Spring and its Possible Developments Giacomo Luciani

Kjetil Selvik is Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen. Bjørn Olav Utvik is Professor in Middle East History and Director of the Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies at the University of Oslo.

'Oil States in the New Middle East: Uprisings and Stability is a good primer about the new conditions that are shaping the Gulf countries in the aftermath of the Arab springs. The book offers convincing critical analysis to students and scholars of Middle Eastern Studies, Oil and Politics, and International Politics.'Arab Studies Quarterly

• Chapter one: Introduction: The Rentier Bargain at the Trial of the Arab Uprisings Bjørn Olav Utvik Chapter two: Re-thinking the Politics of Distributive States: Lessons from the Arab Uprisings Gwenn Okruhlik Chapter three: Youth and the Arab revolutions Kjetil Bjorvatn and Jacob Høigilt Chapter four: Guest workers as a barrier to democratization in oil-rich countries Halvor Mehlum, Kalle Moene and Gry Østenstad Chapter five: Back to the 70s? Saudi Youth and the Kingdom’s Political Economy after the Arab Uprisings Steffen Hertog Chapter six: Kuwait – The Politics of Crisis Ghanim Alnajjar and Kjetil Selvik Chapter seven: Bahrain: Rentierism and Beyond Jane Kinninmont Chapter eight: Iraq: Can a Fractured Rentier State Be Rebuilt? Robert Springborg Chapter nine: Regime legitimation in Algeria after the Arab Spring: Reclaiming ownership to ‘revolution’ Jenny Holmsen Chapter ten: Libya: The Dynamics of the 2011 Revolution Alison Pargeter Chapter eleven: On the Economic Causes of the Arab Spring and its Possible Developments Giacomo Luciani