the Arab state after uprisings: Theoretical and empirical reverberations

The uprisings revealed novel challenges to statehood and raised theoretical and empirical questions about the Arab state. The authors tackle a wide variety of topics that explore how the uprisings impacted regimes and the structure of rule, economic relationships, social dynamics, and the state's role in international relations. What has become of the Arab state more than a decade after the 2010–11 uprisings? This groundbreaking volume offers a bold rethinking of the Arab state in light of the seismic political, social, economic and geopolitical shifts that have reshaped the region. Moving beyond analyses focused solely on the causes and outcomes of the uprisings, the contributors examine how these events transformed the very architecture of the Arab state – from elite realignment, militarisation, political economy and activism, to evolving regional and international relations. Collectively, these examinations push the boundaries of our understanding of state forms in the region and the Global South. Bringing together diverse methodological perspectives and privileging voices and data from within the region, this collection offers a critical, empirically grounded account of how Arab scholars and social actors alike engage with and reimagine the state, its prerogatives and its obligations. It interrogates how institutions have adapted to the after-effects of the uprisings, how violence and repression have been normalised, and how people continue to negotiate power and belonging in their wake. As such, the volume provides both breadth and depth as it wades through topics and cases at the micro, meso and macro levels. Rejecting portrayals of the Arab state as exceptional or absent, this book situates it within broader global patterns of state formation, crisis and transformation. It is a timely theoretical intervention from the region, and an essential contribution to the evolving scholarly dialogue on the state, power and resistance in the Arab world and beyond. More than a decade after the uprisings, the Arab state is not the same. These uprisings revealed novel challenges to statehood and raised theoretical and empirical questions about the Arab state. Bringing together a wide range of scholars who have significant ties to the region, this volume presents unique scholarly voices and centers regional perspectives in its exploration of these themes. The first section of the book cultivates an understanding of the state, its formation and reformation in the region, while being unshackled by the strict constraints and assumptions underlying Western theories of state formation. The second section is dedicated to empirically examining changes to the state in the aftermath of the uprisings, broadly covering the institutional, social, economic, and political ramifications on the state. The authors tackle a wide variety of topics that explore how the uprisings impacted regimes and the structure of rule, economic relationships, social dynamics, and the state's role in international relations.

Pagina's: 272, Hardcover, Manchester University Press