The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life / / Roger Owen.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 2nd edition. With a New Afterword |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (282 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The Search for Sovereignty in an Insecure World
- 2. The Origins of the Presidential Security State
- 3. Basic Components of the Regimes
- 4. Centralized State Systems in Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, and Algeria
- 5. Presidents as Managers in Libya, Sudan, and Yemen
- 6. Constrained Presidencies in Lebanon and Iraq after Hussein
- 7. The Monarchical Security States of Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, and Oman
- 8. The Politics of Succession
- 9. The Question of Arab Exceptionalism
- 10. The Sudden Fall
- Conclusion
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index