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The Logic of Cooperation in Autocracies
This meticulously researched book offers a comprehensive analysis of strategic cooperation in authoritarian regimes, specifically focusing on Yemen's Joint Meeting Parties—an alliance composed of diverse Islamist, Socialist, and Arab nationalist parties. Heibach presents a unique case study that explores the alliance’s remarkable longevity and ultimate success, shedding light on the reasons behind the emergence and endurance of opposition cooperation in autocracies. To provide a nuanced understanding of strategic cooperation, Heibach advocates for the separate examination of internal and external alliance performance. The internal logic of cooperation, which centers on the sustenance of ...
Economic Liberalization and Authoritarianism
Contrary to other world regions, political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain largely authoritarian. While the search for explanations is still ongoing, Christian Neugebauer draws attention to a hitherto underresearched factor: economic liberalization. Being part of a global shift from state-led development towards structural adjustment in the economy, these policies also deeply affected the countries of the MENA region. This makes the resilience of authoritarianism in the region all the more puzzling, as a large part of the scientific community expected economic liberalization to undermine authoritarian regimes. Neugebauer strives to solve the puzzle with a comparative case study that covers four countries (Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco) and their political regimes, from independence in the 1950s to the Arab Spring in 2011. He shows that two specific policies of economic liberalization might in fact have been relevant for regime stability: consumer-price liberalization and privatization.
The Regional Order in the Gulf Region and the Middle East
This book examines the regional order in the Gulf Region and the wider Middle East, focusing on regional rivalries and security alliances. The authors analyze the regional system in terms of its general structure as well as the major inter-state and non-state security alliances. The structure of the regional system in the wider Middle East and the shake-ups it has experienced explain the ongoing regional rivalry and polarization since 2011 in hotspots such as Syria, Yemen, and Libya. As such, the various chapters address regional transition and power dynamics between and among regional great powers and non-state militant actors across the Gulf Region and the wider Middle East in terms of the alliance building, persistence, and disintegration since 2011.
International Encyclopedia of Political Science
Developed in partnership with the International Political Science Association this must-have, authoritative political science resource, in eight volumes, provides a definitive picture of all aspects of political life.
Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa
The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by scholarship mostly from Europe and America.
Yemen and the Search for Stability
The attacks and blockade on Yemen by the Saudi-led multinational coalition have killed thousands and triggered humanitarian disaster. The longstanding conflict in the country between the Huthi rebels and (until December 2017) Salih militias on the one side and those loyal to the internationally recognized government and many other groups fighting for their interests on the other are said to have evolved into a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. In 2011, however, thousands of Yemenis had taken to the streets to protest for a better future for their country. When President Ali Abdullah Salih signed over power in the aftermath of these protests, there were hopes that this would signal the...
The Tale of a Feud
This book chronicles the life and times of tribal leader Mujāhid Ḥaydar, scion of a prominent local dynasty, and his agency in highland Yemen’s political conflicts from the 1970s to the early 2000s. When the political elites of the Ṣāliḥ regime murder his father and his elder brothers, he is forced to exact revenge and lead his tribe through dramatic vicissitudes that culminate in the catastrophe of the Ḥūthī wars. Mujāhid’s life is a story of ongoing strife, heroism, resistance, commitment to the defence of honour, loss, and exile. His biography offers nuanced and original insights into how tribal politics in Yemen influence the domain of the state and are often intertwined with it – such that neither can be comprehended independently from the other.
Mobilizing for Democracy
Mobilizing for Democracy compares two waves of protests for democracy, in Central Eastern Europe in 1989 and in the Middle East and North Africa in 2011.
Die arabische Revolution
Die arabische Welt wird im Frühjahr 2011 von Aufständen erschüttert. 10 Kenner der Region, Korrespondenten der FAZ, der Süddeutschen Zeitung, des Spiegel, der Berliner Zeitung und des Tagesspiegel, berichten über die historischen Ursachen der Konflikte, stellen die neuen demokratischen Kräfte vor, schildern die jüngsten Ereignisse und geben einen Ausblick auf bevorstehende Konfliktfelder. Behandelt werden die Länder Marokko, Algerien, Tunesien, Libyen, Ägypten, Jordanien, Syrien, Libanon, Jemen, Saudi-Arabien, die Golfstaaten und der Sudan.
Die Proteste gegen den libanesischen Konfessionalismus
Antikonfessioneller Aktivismus im Libanon wurde bisher, im Gegensatz zum Konfessionalismus, von der Forschung kaum beachtet. Karolin Sengebusch untersucht die bisher größte Protestwelle gegen den libanesischen Konfessionalismus (2010–2012) und analysiert diese mit Konzepten der sozialen Bewegungsforschung und der politischen Differenz. Die Protestwelle zeichnete sich durch bestimmte Charakteristika aus, die auch in anderen sozialen Bewegungen beobachtbar sind: Die Aktivisten organisierten sich in sehr unterschiedlichen Formen von Parteien bis zu Graswurzelorganisationen, und verwendeten vielfältige Aktionsformen von Gesetzesentwürfen bis zu Clown Walks. Die Studie setzt diese unterschiedlichen Organisations- und Aktionsformen in Bezug zu den Politikkonzepten und Zielen der Aktivisten. Die Diversität der Formen kann dabei durch die Existenz verschiedener Ziele innerhalb einer sozialen Bewegung erklärt werden.
