The Routledge Handbook to the Middle East and North African State and States System

ISBN-13: 9781032239767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 414 str.

Raymond Hinnebusch; Jasmine Gani

Opis

Providing comprehensive coverage of the history and role of the state in the Middle East and North African region, this handbook explores the main debates, theoretical approaches and accumulated empirical research to explain the remarkable resilience of MENA states despite continued conflict and instability.

Spis treści

Part I. Historical Context, State-Building and Politics in MENA  1. State, Revolution and War: Conflict and Resilience in MENA’s States and States System  2. Historical Context of State Formation in the Middle East: Structure and Agency  3. States and State-building in the Middle East  4. Political Regimes of the Middle East and North Africa  5. Authoritarian Adaptability and the Arab Spring  6. The Arab Spring and the Gulf Monarchies  7. Leadership and Legitimacy in MENA  Part II State Actors, Societal Context and Popular Activism  8. The Military in the Arab State  9. Tribes in MENA politics: The Levant Case  10. Political Parties in the Middle East  11. Islam and Islamic Movements and MENA Politics  12. Civil Society in the Middle East and North Africa  13. The Arab Spring Is Not Lost: Moral Protest as the Embodiment of a New Politics  14. Tunisia’s "Civic Parallelism": Lessons for Arab Democratization  Part III Trans-state Politics. The Political Economy and Identity Contexts  15. The Middle East and North Africa in the Lens of Marxist International Relations Theory  16. Oil and the Rentier State in the Middle East  17. Divergent Development in Egypt and the Gulf 18. Studying identity politics in Middle East international relations: before and after the Arab uprisings  19. Arab Nationalism: A Conceptual and Historical Reassessment  Part IV. The International Politics of MENA  20. Conflict in the Middle East  21. Regionalism in the Middle East and North Africa  22. An exceptional context for a debate on international relations? Toward a synthetic approach to the study of the MENA’s international politics  23. U.S. Hegemony and MENA 24. Alliances and the Balance of Power in the Middle East  25. War in the Middle East  26. International Relations of the Gulf: From Stable Rivalry to Spreading Instability

O autorze

Raymond Hinnebusch is Professor of International Relations and Middle East Politics at the University of St. Andrews.

Jasmine K. Gani is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St. Andrews.