Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics

ISBN-13: 9781107618312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 342 str.

Joseph Sassoon

Opis

Examines the system of authoritarianism in eight Arab republics, including life under these regimes and the mechanisms underpinning their resilience.

Recenzje

'Authoritarian regimes in the Arab world have been [extensively] analyzed individually and sometimes as a group. Joseph Sassoon pursues a new way to approach studying them. He does not offer a new theoretical or analytical approach but instead explores them through a new (or rarely used) source: personal memoirs. Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics takes a very inductive approach: he reads the memoirs of those who participated in (and sometimes were victims of) authoritarianism in the Arab republics and explores some commonalities that he finds … Sassoon's contribution here is not to highlight their importance but to observe their similarity…' Nathan J. Brown, The Middle East Journal

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Political memoirs in the Arab republics; 2. Party and governance; 3. The military; 4. The role of security services in the Arab republics; 5. Economy and finance; 6. Leadership and the cult of personality; 7. Transition from authoritarianism; Conclusion.