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Fragile politics : weak states in the greater Middle East

Title
Fragile politics : weak states in the greater Middle East / Mehran Kamrava, editor.
Publication
  • New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Kamrava, Mehran, 1964-
  • Georgetown University. Center for International and Regional Studies.
Description
vii, 317 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"A comprehensive study of state weakness-or of "weak states"-across the Greater Middle East."--inside flap.
Subject
  • Failed states > Middle East > 21st century
  • Political stability > Middle East > 21st century
  • Economic history > 21st century
  • Nation-building > Middle East
  • Middle East > Politics and government > 21st century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFD 16-1940
ISBN
  • 9780190246211
  • 0190246219
OCLC
947022552
Title
Fragile politics : weak states in the greater Middle East / Mehran Kamrava, editor.
Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Kamrava, Mehran, 1964-
Georgetown University. Center for International and Regional Studies.
Research Call Number
JFD 16-1940
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