Federalism In The Middle East

Author : Leonid Issaev,Andrey Zakharov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030703004

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Federalism in the Middle East by Leonid Issaev,Andrey Zakharov Pdf

This book examines the projects of administrative and territorial reconstruction of Arab countries as an aftermath of the “Arab Spring”. Additionally, it looks into an active rethinking of the former unitary model, linked by its critics with dictatorship and oppression. The book presents decentralization or even federalization as newly emerging major topics of socio-political debate in the Arab world. As the federalist recipes and projects are specific and the struggle for their implementation has a pronounced variation, different case studies are presented. Countries discussed include Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. The book looks into the background and prerequisites of the federalist experiments of the “Arab Spring”, describes their evolution and current state, and assesses the prospects for the future. It is, therefore, a must-read for scholars of political science, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of previous and current developments in the Arab countries.

Author : Liam Anderson,Vaughn Shannon
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781800610071

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Federal Solutions For Fragile States In The Middle East: Right-sizing Internal Borders by Liam Anderson,Vaughn Shannon Pdf

In most regions of the world, federalism (territorial autonomy) is used as a successful institutional means of dispersing political power and accommodating ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity. The Middle East is an exception. Aside from the anomalous case of the U.A.E and Iraq's troubled experiment with federalism, Middle Eastern regimes have largely resisted efforts to decentralize political power. As a result, the norm in the region has been highly centralized, unitary systems that have, more often than not, paved the way for authoritarian rule or played witness to serious internal fragmentation and conflict divided along ethnic or religious lines.Federal Solutions for Fragile States in the Middle East makes an argument for the implementation of federalism in the post-conflict states of the Middle East. The argument operates on two levels: the theoretical and the practical. The theoretical case for federalism is backed by empirical evidence, but to accurately evaluate the practical and logistical feasibility of its implementation in any given case requires detailed knowledge of 'real world' political realities. The book's focus is on four post-conflict states — Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya — though the arguments advanced within have broad regional applicability.

Author : Aslı Ü. Bâli,Omar M. Dajani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108831239

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Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East by Aslı Ü. Bâli,Omar M. Dajani Pdf

The first book in English on the law and politics of federalism and decentralization in the MENA region.

Author : Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : NWU:35556010933174

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Self Rule/shared Rule by Daniel Judah Elazar Pdf

To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Author : Jasper Yeates Brinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : UOM:39015023087060

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Federations in the Middle East by Jasper Yeates Brinton Pdf

Author : Olgun Akbulut,Elçin Aktoprak
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004405455

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Minority Self-Government in Europe and the Middle East by Olgun Akbulut,Elçin Aktoprak Pdf

This volume, Minority Self-Government in Europe and theMiddle East: From Theory to Practice, is novel from several perspectives. It combines theory with facts on the ground, going beyond legal perspectives without neglecting existing laws and their implementation.

Author : Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000957860

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Federalism and Political Integration by Daniel Judah Elazar Pdf

Author : Ann Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317043447

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism by Ann Ward Pdf

This comprehensive research companion examines the theory, practice and historical development of the principle of federalism from the ancient period to the contemporary world. It provides a range of interpretations and integrates theoretical and practical aspects of federalism studies more fully than is usually the case. The volume identifies and examines nascent conceptions of the federal idea in ancient and medieval history and political thought before considering the roots of modern federalism in the ideas of a number of important European political theorists of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. The contributors focus on the development and institutionalization of the principle of federalism in the American Republic and examine the historical development and central policy debates surrounding European federalism. The final sections investigate contemporary debates about theories of federalism and regional experiences of federalism in a global context including Africa, India, Australia, the Middle East, and North and South America. The scope and range of this volume is unparalleled; it will provide the reader with a firm understanding of federalism as issues of federalism promise to play an ever more important role in shaping our world.

Author : Abid A. Al-Marayati
Publisher : Brooks/Cole
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Middle East
ISBN : UCAL:B3855507

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The Middle East: Its Governments and Politics by Abid A. Al-Marayati Pdf

Author : Martin Beck,Thomas Richter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526149084

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Oil and the political economy in the Middle East by Martin Beck,Thomas Richter Pdf

The downhill slide in the global price of crude oil, which started mid-2014, had major repercussions across the Middle East for net oil exporters, as well as importers closely connected to the oil-producing countries from the Gulf. Following the Arab uprisings of 2010 and 2011, the oil price decline represented a second major shock for the region in the early twenty-first century – one that has continued to impose constraints, but also provided opportunities. Offering the first comprehensive analysis of the Middle Eastern political economy in response to the 2014 oil price decline, this book connects oil market dynamics with an understanding of socio-political changes. Inspired by rentierism, the contributors present original studies on Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The studies reveal a large diversity of country-specific policy adjustment strategies: from the migrant workers in the Arab Gulf, who lost out in the post-2014 period but were incapable of repelling burdensome adjustment policies, to Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, who have never been able to fulfil the expectation that they could benefit from the 2014 oil price decline. With timely contributions on the COVID-19-induced oil price crash in 2020, this collection signifies that rentierism still prevails with regard to both empirical dynamics in the Middle East and academic discussions on its political economy.

Author : Chibli Mallat
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191021725

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Introduction to Middle Eastern Law by Chibli Mallat Pdf

This book provides an introduction to the laws of the Middle East, defining the contours of a field of study that deserves to be called 'Middle Eastern law'. It introduces Middle Eastern law as a reflection of legal styles, many of which are shared by Islamic law and the laws of Christian and Jewish Near Eastern communities. It offers a detailed survey of the foundations of Middle Eastern Law, using court archives and an array of legal sources from the earliest records of Hammurabi to the massive compendia of law in the Islamic classical age through to the latest decisions of Middle Eastern high courts. It focuses on the way legislators and courts conceive of law and apply it in the Middle East. It builds on the author's extensive legal practice, with the aim of introducing the Middle Eastern law's main sources and concepts in a manner accessible to non-specialist legal scholars and practitioners alike. The book begins with an exploration of the depth and variety of Middle Eastern law, introducing the concepts of shari'a, fiqh, and qanun, (which all mean 'law'), and dwelling on Islamic law as the 'common law' of the Middle East. It provides a historical introduction to the contemporary Middle East, exploring political systems, constitutional law, judicial review, the laws of tort and obligations, commercial law (including Islamic banking, company law, capital markets, and commercial arbitration); and examines legislative reform in family law and the position of women in the legal system. The author considers the interaction between Islamic and Western laws and includes a bibliography designed for further research into the jurisdictions and themes explored throughout the book.

Author : Soeren Keil,Elisabeth Alber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000356304

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Federalism as a Tool of Conflict Resolution by Soeren Keil,Elisabeth Alber Pdf

Looking at the growing use of federalism and decentralization as tools of conflict resolution, this book provides evidence from several case studies on the opportunities and challenges that territorial solutions offer when addressing internal conflicts within a variety of countries. Federalism has been used as a tool of conflict resolution in a number of conflict situations around the world. The results of this have been mixed at best, with some countries moving slowly to the paths of peace and recovery, while others have returned to violence. This volume looks at a number of case studies in which federalism and decentralization have been promoted in order to bring opposing groups together and protect the territorial integrity of different countries. Yet, it is demonstrated that this has been incredibly difficult, and often overshadowed by wider concerns on secession, de and re-centralization and geopolitics and geoeconomics. While federalism and decentralization might hold the key to keeping war-torn countries together and bringing hostile groups to the negotiation table, we nevertheless need to rethink under which conditions territorial autonomy can help to transform conflict and when it might contribute to an increase in conflict and violence. Federalism alone, so the key message from all contributions, cannot be enough to bring peace – yet, without territorial solutions to ongoing violence, it is also unlikely that peace will be achieved. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics.

Author : Ariel I. Ahram
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190917401

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Break all the Borders by Ariel I. Ahram Pdf

Since 2011, civil wars and state failure have wracked the Arab world, underlying the misalignment between national identity and political borders. In Break all the Borders, Ariel I. Ahram examines the separatist movements that aimed to remake those borders and create new independent states. With detailed studies of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the federalists in eastern Libya, the southern resistance in Yemen, and Kurdish nationalist parties, Ahram explains how separatists captured territory and handled the tasks of rebel governance, including managing oil exports, electricity grids, and irrigation networks. Ahram emphasizes that the separatism arose not just as an opportunistic response to state collapse. Rather, separatists drew inspiration from the legacy of Woodrow Wilson and ideal of self-determination. They sought to reinstate political autonomy that had been lost during the early and mid-twentieth century. Speaking to the international community, separatist promised a more just and stable world order. In Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Libya, they served as key allies against radical Islamic groups. Yet their hopes for international recognition have gone unfulfilled. Separatism is symptomatic of the contradictions in sovereignty and statehood in the Arab world. Finding ways to integrate, instead of eliminate, separatist movements may be critical for rebuilding regional order.

Author : Alex Danilovich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317112921

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Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds by Alex Danilovich Pdf

Iraq today faces a whole gamut of problems associated with post-war recovery and state-rebuilding compounded by age old mistrust and suspicion. The situation in Iraq resembles a huge experiment in which social scientists can observe the consequences of actions taken across an entire country. Can Western ideas take route and flourish in non-western societies? Can constitutionalism take hold and work in a traditional religious and deeply divided society? Is Iraqi federalism a solution to the country’s severe disunity or a temporary fix? Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together addresses these important questions and focuses on the role of federalism as a viable solution to Iraq's many problems and the efforts the Kurdish government has deployed to adjust to new federal relations that entail not only gains, but also concessions and compromises. The author's direct experience of living and working within this embattled country allows a unique reflection on the successes and failures of federalism and the positive developments the introduction of federal relationships have brought.

Author : Farah Shakir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315474601

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The Iraqi Federation by Farah Shakir Pdf

Political instability has characterised the modern history of Iraq, which has proven itself as a complex state to govern. However, the creation of a federal system in 2005 offers the potential for change and a deviation from a past characterised by authoritarian government, brutality and war. The Iraqi Federation explores why and how Iraq became a federal state, and analyses how the process of formation impacts on the operation of the Iraqi federal system. It argues that the different approaches taken by various federal theorists in the past, particularly William H. Riker’s bargain theory, are insufficient to explain the formation of the Iraqi federation completely. The process of the establishment of a federal Iraq must be understood in the context of its unique history and cultural specificity, as well as in the context of the other new federal models that have appeared since the end of the Cold War, including Belgium, the Russian Federation, Ethiopia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Nigeria. Drawing on interviews with contemporary political players in Iraq, this book helps to deepen our understanding of how one of the newest federal states operates in a practical sense. By linking the new federal models to the classic federal theory, it also provides a unique contribution to theories on federal state formation. It will therefore be of great interest to students and scholars of Middle East Politics, as well as those studying Federalism.