ABSTRACT
The ecological and economic factors that conditions existence of state structures and geographic reach of authority throughout Arab history. In many cases, colonial state structures were the first to effectively rule their claimed territories and almost all state structures that existed in Arabia until World War II could only survive. Even after World War II, fortuitously independent Libya could not really sustain a state structure until oil exports began in the late 50s. People should not speak of hydrocarbon societies and states, it is a fact that oil production appears to have a strong and decisive influence on the nature of the state. Thus, the Arab world is fairly clearly divided between allocation and production states, and the former comprise countries that are not oil producers, but receive substantial income from abroad on different grounds. The relative importance of the financial resources that the allocation states have available relative to the military potential and economic needs of the production states.
