Rethinking Statehood in the Middle East and North Africa: Security, Sovereignty and New Political Orders

ISBN-13: 9780367180881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 234 str.

Abel Polese; Ruth Hanau Santini

Opis

Alternative forms of government and statehood exist in the Middle East and North African regions. The chapters in this volume demonstrate this and explore the notion of power from a non-statist perspective, highlighting the limits of states and their governance. This book was originally published as a special issue of Small Wars & Insurgencies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction - Limited Statehood and its Security Implications on the Fragmentation Political Order in the Middle East and North Africa  2. From Westphalian Failure to Heterarchic Governance in MENA: The Case of Syria  3. ‘What is in a Name?’: The Role of (Different) Identities in the Multiple Proxy Wars in Syria  4. Competitive Statehood in Libya: Governing Differently a Specific Setting or Deconstructing its Weak Sovereign State with a Fateful Drift Toward Chaos?  5. Between the Cracks: Actor Fragmentation and Local Conflict Systems in the Libyan Civil War  6. Security Assistance in a Post-interventionist Era: The Impact on Limited Statehood in Lebanon and Tunisia  7. Hizbullah’s Shaping Lebanon Statehood  8. Recognizing Fragmented Authority: Towards a post-Westphalian Security Order in Iraq  9. Competing for Control over the State: The Case of Yemen  10. A Dangerous Method: How Mali Lost Control of the North, and Learned to Stop Worrying