What's wrong with the Arab world?

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes For two noteworthy sources, see Kiren Aziz Chaudhry, The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997) and, Alan Richards and John Waterbury, A Political Economy of the Middle East, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996). See, for example, the data in US Energy Information Agency (EIA), International Energy Outlook for 2004, at http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/download.html and International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook, 2004, (Paris: OECD/IEA, October 2004). United Nations Development Programme and Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, Arab Human Development Report 2002: Creating Opportunities for Future Generations, (New York, UNDP, 2002); and Idem, Arab Human Development Report 2003: Building a Knowledge Society, (New York, UNDP, 2003). Needless to say, Glain does not examine these 2 epoch making reports, which could have shed light on some of his questions. The Pew Global Project Attitudes, A Year After Iraq War: Mistrust of America in Europe Ever Higher, Muslim Anger Persists: A Nine-Country Survey, (Washington DC: The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 16 March 2004); see also Idem, Views of a Changing World, June 2003: How Global Publics View War in Iraq, Democracy, Islam and Governance, Globalization, (Washington DC: The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, June 2003); and Idem, What the World Thinks in 2002: How Global Politics Views Their Lives, Their Countries, The World, America, (Washington DC: The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, December 2002). Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph A. Kéchichian *Joseph A. Kéchichian is the author of Succession in Saudi Arabia (New York: Palgrave, 2001) and co-author, with R. Hrair Dekmejian, of The Just Prince: A Manual of Leadership (London: Saqi Books, 2003). Joseph A. Kéchichian is the author of Succession in Saudi Arabia (New York: Palgrave, 2001) and co-author, with R. Hrair Dekmejian, of The Just Prince: A Manual of Leadership (London: Saqi Books, 2003).