The piece is also written with an eye to states in the Middle East. However, it doesn't consider the stability that oil producing states enjoy because of large revenue flows and consequent domestic coercive capacity - and possible legitimacy dervied from spreading the wealth, where they attempt to do so. I am reminded of Skocpol's argument about overextension of governments being a necessary pre-condition for revolutionary change - though her focus is on agrarian societies.
people need to realize you can't apply a method or pattern to any state. each is different. south korea worked out in the end. if it had been in the middle east we would have had iraq 40 years earlier
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