Sovereignty After Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia

ISBN-13: 9780748668557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 408 str.

Sally N Cummings

Opis

How does empire affect the route to successor sovereign state systems and the features of the sovereignty of these systems? This unique systematic comparison of empires and of their consequences for sovereignty in the Middle East and Central Asia brings theory on empire and sovereignty to bear on empirical variation across the two regions. The novel approach to understanding the political structures of states in two significant areas of the non-European world offers an important comparative discussion of post-imperial development and sovereignty. It raises a clear set of research questions about variations of imperial practice and puts forward an attractive and persuasive case that imperial legacy has been an important variable in the post-independence period.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, Sally N. Cummings and Raymond Hinnebusch; Section One: Histories of Empire and After; 2. Russian Empires, Dominic Lieven; 3. The British and French empires in the Arab world: Some problems of colonial state-formation and its legacy, James McDougall; 4. Ottoman Legacies and Economic Sovereignty in Post-Imperial Anatolia, Syria and Iraq, Fred Lawson; Section Two: Paths to Sovereignty - Views from the Core and Periphery; 5. Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire and After, Ben Fortna; 6. Mandated Sovereignty? The Role of International Law in the Construction of Arab Statehood during and after Empire, Michelle Burgis; 7. Reluctant sovereigns? Central Asian states' path to independence, Mohira Suyarkulova; Section Three: Empire and Domestic Sovereignty; 8. The Middle East after Empire: Sovereignty and Institutions, Louise Fawcett; 9. Sovereignty after empire: the colonial roots of Central Asian authoritarianism, David Lewis; Section Four: Empire and Popular Sovereignty; 10. Culture, Colonialism and Sovereignty in Central Asia, Laura L. Adams; 11. Culture in the Middle East: the 'Western Question' and the sovereignty of post-imperial states in the Middle East, Morten Valbjørn; 12. Pathways of Islamist mobilisation against the state in the Middle East and Central Asia, Frederic Volpi; Section Five: Empire and External Sovereignty; 13. Empire and State Formation: Contrary tangents in Jordan and Syria, Raymond Hinnebusch; 14. Rentierism, Dependency and Sovereignty in Central Asia, Wojciech Ostrowski; 15. Tajikistan: from de facto colony to sovereign dependency, Muriel Atkin; Conclusions, Sally N. Cummings and Raymond Hinnebusch