The rise and fall of Arab presidents for life /
Monarchical presidential regimes in the Arab world looked as though they would last indefinitely--until events in Tunisia and Egypt made clear their time was up. This is the first book to lay bare the dynamics of a governmental system that largely defined the Arab Middle East in the twentieth centur...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The search for sovereignty in an insecure world
- The origins of the presidential security state
- Basic components of the regimes
- Centralized state systems in Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, and Algeria
- Presidents as managers in Sudan, Libya, and Yemen
- Constrained presidencies in Lebanon and Iraq after Hussein
- The monarchical security states of Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, and Oman
- The politics of succession
- The question of Arab exceptionalism
- The sudden fall.