 | Beyond Coercion: The Durability of the Arab State Subjects: Area Studies; Politics & International Relations; Middle East Studies; International Politics; Security Studies - Pol & Intl Relns; International Relations; Middle East Culture; Middle East Economics; Middle East History; Middle East Politics; Middle East Society; Political Islam; Middle East Politics; Migration & Diaspora; Regionalism; Conflict Resolution; Peace Studies; Terrorism; War & Conflict Studies; This volume, first published in 1988, analyses the process of stabilisation amongst the Arab states, a process that has contradicted all predictions of impending disintegration and impending collapse. Although there were some cases of disintegration, there are evidently mechanisms at work that helped consolidate the majority of Arab states and the Arab state system. Revolutions, as in Iran or the Sudan, or political collapse and disintegration, as in Lebanon, have been highly visible but nevertheless exceptions. This collection, Volume Three in the Nation, State and Integration in the Arab World research project carried out by the Istituto Affari Internazionali, focuses on the problem of explaining the stability and persistence of the state in the Arab world. Adeed Dawisha, I. William Zartman |
