Abstract:Popular policy accounts of Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate (GID) commonly detach it from the country's history, society, and political economy. By isolating and focusing on the GID's role as protector of the monarchy, one loses sight of other important effects of its historical evolution. This article explores the GID's origins in the late 1960s and 1970s and how it has evolved. It positions Jordan's security services as institutional and political- economic actors contributing to the decline of the Jordanian public sector and the emergence of a fiscal crisis.

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约旦总情报局的政治经济史：专制国家建设与财政危机

摘要：约旦通用情报局（GID）的热门政策说明通常使该国脱离该国的历史，社会和政治经济。通过隔离并专注于GID作为君主制的保护者，人们就看不到其历史演变的其他重要影响。本文探讨了GID在1960年代末和1970年代末的起源以及它的发展过程。它将约旦的安全部门定位为体制和政治经济参与者，这为约旦公共部门的衰落和财政危机的出现做出了贡献。