Hybrid Sovereignty in the Arab Middle East: The Cases of Kuwait, Jordan, and Iraq - Middle East in Focus (Hardback)

G. Bacik (author)

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Hardback 272 Pages
Published: 02/07/2008

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Synopsis

This book provides readers with a fresh analysis of the Arab state by using a new theoretical framework: hybrid sovereignty. The author examines various areas to make his argument: citizenship, the issue of minorities, electoral engineering, the failure of central rule, tribalism, and the lack of impersonal bureaucratic mechanism.

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230600409
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 563 g
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

"Gokhan Bacik persuasively shows that the sovereign state in the Middle East can best be understood with a model of hybrid sovereignty , comprising the impact of the colonial past and traditional formations. While doing this he also leads the reader to question the conventional Westphalian formulation of sovereignty as a feature of state-to-state relations and instead brings an insight in terms of state-to-society relations. A fascinating attempt to look at the history of state formation in the Middle East through new eyes and from new angles." - Ahmet Nuri Yurdusev, Middle East Technical University, author of International Relations and the Philosophy of History and Ottoman Diplomacy: Conventional or Unconventional?

"Bacik's clear, detailed, and convincing analysis provides crucial insights into the power and sovereignty of the state in Arab countries. This book deserves your attention."

- Fuat Keyman, Koc University, author of Globalization, State, Identity/Difference