Beyond Coercion

The Durability of the Arab State

• Author(s): Adeed Dawisha, I. William Zartman,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 326
• ISBN_10: 1317410297
  ISBN_13: 9781317410294
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Regional Studies , Social Science / Sociology / General , Business & Economics / Economics / General , History / Middle East / General , Religion / General , Political Science / Peace , Political Science / Terrorism , Political Science / Political Freedom ,

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This volume, first published in 1988, analyses the process of stabilisation amongst the Arab states, a process that has contradicted all predictions of impending disintegration and impending collapse. Although there were some cases of disintegration, there are evidently mechanisms at work that helped consolidate the majority of Arab states and the Arab state system. Revolutions, as in Iran or the Sudan, or political collapse and disintegration, as in Lebanon, have been highly visible but nevertheless exceptions. This collection, Volume Three in the Nation, State and Integration in the Arab World research project carried out by the Istituto Affari Internazionali, focuses on the problem of explaining the stability and persistence of the state in the Arab world.