Fragile politics : weak states in the greater Middle East / Mehran Kamrava, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kamrava, Mehran, 1964- editor.

Georgetown University. Center for International and Regional Studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nation-building.

Political stability.

Failed states.

Politics and government.

Middle East--Politics and government--21st century.

Middle East.

Failed states--Middle East--21st century.

Political stability--Middle East--21st century.

Economic history--21st century.

Economic history.

Nation-building--Middle East.

Physical Description:

vii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"A comprehensive study of state weakness-or of "weak states"-across the Greater Middle East."--inside flap.

Contents:

Weak states in the Middle East / Mehran Kamrava

Yemen: Failing state or failing politics / Charles Schmitz

Questioning failure, stability, and risk in Yemen / Sarah Phillips

Interventionism and the fear of urban agency in Afghanistan and Iraq / Daniel Esser

Libya after Qadhafi: Fragmentation, hybridity, and informality / Frederic Wehrey

Strong actor in a weak state: The geopolitics of Hezbollah / Shoghig Mikaelian and Bassel F. Salloukh

Margin and center in Sudan: On the historicity of state weakness / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

Sudan: A turbulent political marketplace / Alex de Waal

Women, work, and the weak state: A case study of Pakistan and Sudan / Zahra Babar and Dwaa Osman

Whither Palestine? Weak state, failed state, or no state at all? / Glenn E. Robinson

Diasporas and state-(re)building in the MENA region: Potentials and constraints / Laurie A. Brand

State capacity and aid effectiveness in weak states in the greater Middle East / Mark McGillivray.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190246211

0190246219

OCLC:

947022552