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- “JODI Oil World Database,” Joint Organizations Data Initiative, 2018; see also “Saudi
February 2018 Official Oil Data,” MEES 60, no. 16 (April 20, 2018).
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Press Agency, August 8, 2016, http: //www .spa .gov .sa /1526974.
- Saudi Aramco executive, Dhahran. Interviewed by the author, January 28, 2016, on
condition of anonymity.
- Suhasini Ramisetty- Mikler and Abdulkarim Almakadma, “Attitudes and Behaviors
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of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 3, no. 2 (2016): 55– 63, https: //doi .org /https: //doi
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- Interviews on condition of anonymity, Dhahran, January 27, 2016.
- Interviews on condition of anonymity, Dhahran and Riyadh, February 2018.
- THE POLITICS OF REFORM
- The detail about the Kuwait mosque bombing comes from various news reports,
including Ahmed Hagagy, “Islamic State Suicide Bomber Kills 27, Wounds 227 in
Kuwait Mosque,” Reuters, June 26, 2015, http: //www .reuters .com /article /us - kuwait
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- A c o m p e n d i u m c a n b e f o u n d o n W i k i p e d i a : h t t p s : / / e n. w i k i p e d i a. o r g / w i k i
/ Terrorism_in_Kuwait.
- IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2015. Updated figures provided in Justin
Gengler and Laurent A. Lambert, “Renegotiating the Ruling Bargain: Selling Fiscal
Reform in the GCC,” Middle East Journal 70, no. 2 (2016): 322.
- Paul Pierson, “The New Politics of the Welfare State,” Worl d Politic s 48 (1996): 143– 79.
- Jim Krane, “Political Enablers of Energy Subsidy Reform in Middle Eastern Oil
Exporters,” Nature Energy ( A p r i l 2 0 1 8 ) , h t t p s : / / d o i. o r g / 1 0. 1 0 3 8 / s 4 1 5 6 0 - 0 1 8 - 0 1 1 3 - 4.
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- “Kuwait Cuts Diesel Fuel Prices After Political Pressure,” Reuters, January 28, 2015.
