Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World by Leif Wenar

Author:Leif Wenar [Wenar, Leif]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9780190262921
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-12-02T05:00:00+00:00

Saudi: Sapere Aude36

Doubts surround the issues just discussed, and having given them space, we can return to what we know. The answer to our original question is the obvious one we started with: Saudi Arabia has a highly authoritarian regime; the citizens cannot control the country’s oil. Saudi citizens do not have the minimal civil liberties and political rights required for their silence to signal valid tacit approval of the regime’s management of the country’s resources. Since 2003, the Kingdom has been in a reformist phase and has reversed some of the most reactionary trends of the 1979–2003 period. Like an addict attempting to clean up and fly right, the regime has also made efforts to diversify the country’s economy away from oil, to modernize the educational system, and to make enforcement of sharia law more predictable. But most of the political conditions necessary for popular authorization are still far from met.

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