Making sense of the Arab State
No region in the world has been more hostile to democracy, more dominated by military and security institutions, or weaker on economic development and inclusive governance than the Middle East. Why have Arab states been so oppressively strong in some areas but so devastatingly weak in others? How d...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor, Michigan :
University of Michigan Press
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies series.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009841433206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Making Sense of the Arab State | Steven Heydemann and Marc Lynch
- Section 1: Dimensions of Stateness
- One. Seeing the State or Why Arab States Look the Way They Do | Steven Heydemann
- Two. Understanding State Weakness in the Middle East and North Africa | Raymond Hinnebusch
- Three. Rethinking the Postcolonial State in the Middle East: Elite Competition and Negotiation within the Disaggregated Iraqi State | Toby Dodge
- Four. Legibility, Digital Surveillance, and the State in the Middle East | Marc Lynch
- Section 2: Dimensions of Regime-ness
- Five. What We Talk about When We Talk about the State in Postwar Lebanon | Bassel F. Salloukh
- Six. The "Business of Government": The State and Changing Patterns of Politics in the Arab World | Lisa Anderson
- Seven. Palace Politics as "Precarious" Rule: Weak Statehood in Afghanistan | Dipali Mukhopadhyay
- Section 3: Contesting Stateness: Society and Sites of Resistance
- Eight. State Capacity and Contention: A View from Jordan | Jillian Schwedler
- Nine. Water, Stateness, and Tribalism in Jordan: The Case of the Disi Water Conveyance Project | Sean Yom
- Conclusion: The Specter of the Spectrum: Escaping the Residual Category of Weak States | Dan Slater
- Contributors
- Index.
