The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life / Roger Owen.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.Description: xi, 248 p. : ill., map ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780674065833 (alk. paper)
- Presidents -- Arab countries -- History
- Presidents -- Middle East -- History
- Monarchy -- Arab countries
- Monarchy -- Middle East
- Authoritarianism -- Arab countries
- Arab countries -- Politics and government -- 1945-
- Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1945-
- Arab countries -- Kings and rulers
- Middle East -- Kings and rulers
- January2013
- Authoritarianism -- Middle East
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-226) and index.
The search for sovereignty in an insecure world -- The origins of the presidential security state -- Basic components of the regimes -- Centralized state systems in Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, and Algeria -- Presidents as managers in Sudan, Libya, and Yemen -- Constrained presidencies in Lebanon and Iraq after Hussein -- The monarchical security states of Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, and Oman -- The politics of succession -- The question of Arab exceptionalism -- The sudden fall.
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