Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The search for sovereignty in an insecure world
  • The origins of the presidential security state
  • Basic components of the regimes
  • Centralized state systems in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Algeria
  • Presidents as managers in Libya, Sudan, and Yemen
  • Constrained presidencies in Lebanon and Iraq after Hussein
  • The monarchical security stats of Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, and Oman
  • The politics of succession
  • The question of Arab exceptionalism
  • The sudden fall
  • Conclusion
  • Afterword.