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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Owen, Roger, 1935-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.