Making Sense of the Arab State: Emerging Democracies
Editat de Steven Heydemann, Marc Lynchen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iul 2024
Making Sense of the Arab State brings together top scholars from diverse theoretical orientations to address some of the most critically important questions facing the region today. The authors grapple with enduring questions such as the uneven development of state capacity, the failures of developmentalism and governance, the centrality of regime security and survival concerns, the excesses of surveillance and control, and the increasing personalization of power. Making Sense of the Arab State will be a must-read for scholars of the Middle East and of comparative politics more broadly.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780472056989
ISBN-10: 0472056980
Pagini: 308
Ilustrații: 4 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Seria Emerging Democracies
ISBN-10: 0472056980
Pagini: 308
Ilustrații: 4 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Seria Emerging Democracies
Notă biografică
Steven Heydemann is Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies and Professor of Government at Smith College and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
Marc Lynch is Professor of Political Science at The George Washington University.
Marc Lynch is Professor of Political Science at The George Washington University.
Cuprins
Table of Contents
Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making Sense of the Arab State
By Steven Heydemann and Marc Lynch
SECTION 1: DIMENSIONS OF STATENESS
1. Seeing the State or Why Arab States Look the Way They Do
By Steven Heydemann
2. Understanding State Weakness in the Middle East and North Africa
By Raymond Hinnebusch
3. Rethinking the Postcolonial State in the Middle East: Elite Competition and Negotiation within the Disaggregated Iraqi State
By Toby Dodge
4. Legibility, Digital Surveillance, and the State in the Middle East
By Marc Lynch
SECTION 2: DIMENSIONS OF REGIME-NESS
5. What We Talk About When We Talk About the State in Postwar Lebanon
By Bassel F. Salloukh
6. The “Business of Government”: The State and Changing Patterns of Politics in the Arab World
By Lisa Anderson
7. Palace Politics as "Precarious" Rule: Weak Statehood in Afghanistan
By Dipali Mukhopadhyay
SECTION 3: CONTESTING STATENESS: SOCIETY AND SITES OF RESISTANCE
8. State Capacity and Contention: A View from Jordan
By Jillian Schwedler
9. Water, Stateness, and Tribalism in Jordan: The Case of the Disi Water Conveyance Project
By Sean Yom
10. Conclusion: The Specter of the Spectrum: Escaping the Residual Category of Weak States
By Dan Slater
Contributors
Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Making Sense of the Arab State
By Steven Heydemann and Marc Lynch
SECTION 1: DIMENSIONS OF STATENESS
1. Seeing the State or Why Arab States Look the Way They Do
By Steven Heydemann
2. Understanding State Weakness in the Middle East and North Africa
By Raymond Hinnebusch
3. Rethinking the Postcolonial State in the Middle East: Elite Competition and Negotiation within the Disaggregated Iraqi State
By Toby Dodge
4. Legibility, Digital Surveillance, and the State in the Middle East
By Marc Lynch
SECTION 2: DIMENSIONS OF REGIME-NESS
5. What We Talk About When We Talk About the State in Postwar Lebanon
By Bassel F. Salloukh
6. The “Business of Government”: The State and Changing Patterns of Politics in the Arab World
By Lisa Anderson
7. Palace Politics as "Precarious" Rule: Weak Statehood in Afghanistan
By Dipali Mukhopadhyay
SECTION 3: CONTESTING STATENESS: SOCIETY AND SITES OF RESISTANCE
8. State Capacity and Contention: A View from Jordan
By Jillian Schwedler
9. Water, Stateness, and Tribalism in Jordan: The Case of the Disi Water Conveyance Project
By Sean Yom
10. Conclusion: The Specter of the Spectrum: Escaping the Residual Category of Weak States
By Dan Slater
Contributors
Recenzii
“Making Sense of the Arab State is an exemplary volume that offers readers the conceptual tools for understanding recent trends in state development in the Arab world. This is a highly original contribution that should be widely read.”
“Making Sense of the Arab State offers a sophisticated account of the state in the Arab world. It examines the diversity of state qualities in the Arab world and offers new conceptual outlooks on dichotomies of state absence vs presence and state vs society. This is a novel approach and shifts scholarship on studies of the state and politics in the Arab world onto a new level.”
“This book brings together a group of top scholars to generate fresh perspectives on Arab states that move beyond approaches emphasizing the deficiencies of stateness in the region. Collectively, the contributors delve deeply into how Arab regimes, states, and societies operate in practice, situating them in comparative perspective to reveal their commonalities and differences as they have evolved over time. This volume is a must-read for scholars and students of the Middle East.”
“Making Sense of the Arab State provides a refreshing contribution to both the study of the
state and the Middle East. The theoretically nuanced, empirically rich chapters examine the
region’s states as they are, rather than bemoaning what they are not. In doing so, they teach us much state capacity and transformation in the region and beyond.”
Descriere
Exploring the surprising strengths and weaknesses of the Arab state