TY  - GEN
AU  - Abel Polese
AU  - Ruth Hanau Santini
TI  - Rethinking Statehood in the Middle East and North Africa: Security, Sovereignty and New Political Orders
SN  - 9780367662325
PY  - 2020///0930
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Routledge
N2  - Alternative forms of government and statehood exist in the Middle East and North African regions. The chapters in this volume demonstrate this and explore the notion of power from a non-statist perspective, highlighting the limits of states and their governance. Using empirical evidence from Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, and Mali, the authors explore non-standard cases where power may be retained by a state but must be shared with a number of local actors, resulting in limited statehood and hybrid governance, which leads to competition and sharing of symbolic and political power within a state. This book is intended to prompt a critical reflection on the meaning of governance. It will illuminate informal structures which deserve attention when studying governance and power dynamics within a state or a region. This book was originally published as a special issue of Small Wars & Insurgencies
ER  -