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

Uniform Title: Fragile politics (2016)
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Copyright Date: ©2016
Physical Description: vii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Additional Creators: Kamrava, Mehran, 1964- and Georgetown University. Center for International and Regional Studies

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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.

Summary

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

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ISBN

9780190246211 (paperback)
0190246219 (paperback)

Note

"Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar Center for International and Regional Studies."

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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