Abstract
For decades, The rentier state theory has provided the most popular explanations for the sociopolitical dynamics in the Arab Gulf states, however, due to the rapid transformations in the Gulf societies in recent years, the theory went under severe critiques especially after its failure to predict the emergence of a new Gulf social contract after the oil crisis of 2014. This essay has tried to shed the light on one of the missing dimensions of these critiques by arguing that this failure might have occurred because the rentier state theory adhered to an obsolete epistemological paradigm of modernity that was incapable of dealing with such a complex social phenomenon from the beginning. Also, seeking epistemic healing, the essay highlighted the most recent shift in the philosophy of science toward a complexity paradigm and referred to its potentials to exceed the limits of the rentier paradigm.
Highlights
After more than a year of living under the new circumstances of the Covid-19 global pandemic, the observer can see the domino effect of this pandemic, which has disrupted local politics and the global economy and has struck mercilessly on every aspect of our species' life
The rentier state theory has provided the most popular explanations for the sociopolitical dynamics in the Arab Gulf states, due to the rapid transformations in the Gulf societies in recent years, the theory went under severe critiques especially after its failure to predict the emergence of a new Gulf social contract after the oil crisis of 2014
After we have seen a snapshot about the development journey of western epistemology, it becomes obvious that the rentier state theory is a legal born of the modernity paradigm, it is followed its four rules and established based on its assumption about the social reality, and it didn't undergo into the development process to be valid to explain the new reality of social life
Summary
After more than a year of living under the new circumstances of the Covid-19 global pandemic, the observer can see the domino effect of this pandemic, which has disrupted local politics and the global economy and has struck mercilessly on every aspect of our species' life. This new reality has prompted some academics to call for a rethinking of how we run our politics and society, and some have even spoken of a “post-pandemic world” (Zakaria, 2020), as they realized that the ideas and beliefs that had prevailed prior to the pandemic would not be able to withstand the aftermath. I will conclude with a call raised by some scholars for a new paradigm that can meet our new complex social reality
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