How border peripheries are changing the nature of Arab states. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Maha Yahya.
• Editors: Yahya, Maha
• Contents: 1. Introduction, Maha Yahya2. Smuggling and State Formation: A Match Made in Algeria, Dalia Ghanem3.Cronies and Contraband: Why Integrating Tunisia's Informal Economic Elite Has Become Necessary, Hamza Meddeb4. North Pacific: Why Lebanon's Akkar Region Weathered the Syrian Conflict, Maha Yahya and Mohanad Hage Ali5. Transnationalization of a Borderland: Center, Periphery, and Identity in Western Iraq, Harith Hasan6. Hadramawt's Emergence as a Center: A Confluence of Yemeni Circumstances and Hadrami Resourcefulness, Ahmed Nagi7. How Syria's War Extended Border Policies to Much of the Country, Kheder Khaddour and Kevin Mazur8. The Center Gives: Southern Syria and the Rise of New Peripheral Powerbrokers, Armenak Tokmajyan9. On the Edge: How Risks from Iraq Have Helped Form Kuwaiti Identity, Bader Al-Saif.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 320.956; International relations; Political Science -- Public Policy -- General; Politics & government; Political structure & processes; Middle East--Politics and government; Political science; Political Science -- International Relations -- General; International relations; Arab countries -- Boundaries; Arab countries -- Politics and government
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783031091872
• Related ISBNs: 9783031091865
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