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Limited Statehood and Informal Governance in the Middle East and Africa book cover

1st Edition

Limited Statehood and Informal Governance in the Middle East and Africa

Edited By Ruth Hanau Santini, Abel Polese, Rob Kevlihan Copyright 2021
290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge
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Hybrid forms of governance – where the central state authority does not possess a monopoly of violence and fails to exercise control – are not only an epiphenomena, but a reality likely to persist. This book explores this phenomenon drawing on examples from the Middle East and Africa. It considers the different sorts of actors – state and non-state, public and private, national and transnational... Read more

Foreword, Raymond Hinnebusch

Introduction

Part I International interventions and the interplay between formal and informal governance

  1. Fluid concepts and understandings redefined: states, porous borders and transnational militant actors in Syria

    2. Joseph P. Helou

  2. Limited Statehood and the Politics of Security Governance in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)

    3. Mustafa Çıraklı, Umut Koldaş

  3. (In)Securitizing Somalia’s territorial waters as an area of limited statehood

    4. Stephanie Carver

  4. Limited statehood in a shattered state: territorial and economic challenges to the construct of the Iraqi state

    5. Adriano Cozzolino, Irene Costantini,

  5. Trials and tribulations: the challenges of building a sustainable state in South Sudan

    6. Daniela Nascimento

  6. Interventions and sovereignty limitations in Libya

    7. Debora Malito

    Part II Domestic Agency and Dynamics

  7. The margins at the core: Boko Haram’s impact on hybrid governance on Lake Chad

    8. Alessio Iocchi

  8. Competing orders in cross border areas of limited statehood: the cases of Southern Tunisia and Northern Mali micro-regions

    9. Edoardo Baldaro, Giulia Cimini

  9. Resisting or Appropriating: Two approaches in the study of aid, violent non-state actors, and governance

    10. Ori Swed, Samuel Fletcher Stubblefield

  10. Somalia, Fragmented Hybrid Governance and Inclusive Development

    11. Eric Herring, Latif Ismail, Aoife McCullough and Muhyadin Saed

  11. Mediating Security – Hybridity and Clientelism in Lebanon’s Hybrid Security Sector

    12. Francisco Mazzola

  12. Micro Formations of Hybrid Security Governance in Ethnic Riots: Mapping the Interworkings of State Forces, Vigilantes, Residents, Thugs and Armed Mobs in the Violent Slums of Jos, Nigeria

    13. Madueke, Vermeulen

  13. Leadership Changes & Rebels’ Goals in Areas of Limited Statehood in the Middle East: Libya, Iraq and Yemen

Carmela Lutmar

　

Conclusion

　

　

　

Biography

Ruth Hanau Santini is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Università L’Orientale, Naples

Abel Polese is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland, and Tallinn Law School, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Rob Kevlihan is Consultative Director at the Shanahan Research Group and Managing Director of Gumfoot Consultancy Ltd., both based in Ireland.

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