Challenges to the Cohesion of the Arab State - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9652240796 ISBN 13: 9789652240798

Publisher: Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern & African Studies,Israel, 2009

Synopsis

The system by which the Middle East is divided into separate states is not self-evident. It is largely an artificial, colonial construct that emulates the European state order, whereby territories with defined borders, contain predominately homogeneous peoples, comprised of inhabitants sharing a common language, such as the French in France, or the Germans in Germany. In practice, none of the states in the Arab Middle East fits this bill. In recent years, especially after the US invasion of Iraq, a pervasive sense of uncertainty has gripped the capitals of the Middle East in regard to the continued stability of the region s state order. The crushing of Iraq has sent shockwaves throughout the Arab East. The relative weakness of the Arab state system, the spread of radical Islam, and the reassertion of primordial sub-state identities threaten to undermine the cohesion of some key Arab states. How are they coping with these challenges? To what extent are their efforts succeeding? These are the crucial questions that this compendium seeks to examine.

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About the Author

ASHER SUSSER is a senior fellow and former director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University. He is the author or editor of eight books on the politics of the Middle East.

Edition details

• Publisher: Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle Eastern & African Studies,Israel
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9652240796
• ISBN 13: 9789652240798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Susser Asher