The Frailty of Authority: Borders, Non-State Actors and Power Vacuums in a Changing Middle East

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Lorenzo Kamel
Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 31 mar 2017 - 162 pagine

 Governance failures, combined with 21st-century social, economic, environmental and demographic conditions, have all contributed to paving the way for the rise of highly heterogeneous non-state and quasi-state actors in the Middle East. Has the state, then, been irremediably undermined, or will the current transition lead to the emergence of new state entities? How can the crumbling of states and the redrawing of borders be reconciled with the exacerbation of traditional inter-state competition, including through proxy wars? How can a new potential regional order be framed and imagined? This volume provides a historical background and policy answers to these and a number of other related questions, analysing developments in the region from the standpoint of the interplay between disintegration and polarization.


 

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Sommario

List of contributors
7
Introduction by Lorenzo Kamel
15
SocioEconomic Challenges
35
State Vacuums and NonState Actors in the Middle East and North Africa
51
State and NonState Alliances in the Middle East
67
Mapping PostStatist Geopolitics
85
Hybrid Partnerships in Middle East Turbulence
107
A Natural Order? States Nations and Borders in a Changing Middle East
123
Bibliography
141
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Informazioni sull'autore (2017)

 Lorenzo Kamel is Senior Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the University of Freiburg’s Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), and non-resident Associate at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES).

Informazioni bibliografiche

TitoloThe Frailty of Authority: Borders, Non-State Actors and Power Vacuums in a Changing Middle East
CuratoreLorenzo Kamel
EditoreEdizioni Nuova Cultura, 2017
ISBN8868128284, 9788868128289
Lunghezza162 pagine
  
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