
Author/Contributor(s): | Kamrava, Mehran |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA |
Date: | 03/01/2016 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
forced to give up power. A bloody civil war continues to rage in Syria. These uprisings highlighted weaknesses in the capacity and legitimacy of states across the Arab Middle East. This book provides a comprehensive study of state weakness-or of 'weak states'-across the Greater Middle East. No other book examines the subject of weak states in the Middle East. Fragile Politics begins with laying the theoretical framework for the study of weak states, examining the theoretical controversies surrounding the topic, the causes and characteristics of weak states, and their consequences for
the Middle East. It then looks at a series of case studies, examining various themes within the study of weak states in relation to each case study.