TY  - BOOK
AU  - Owen,Roger
TI  - The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life
SN  - 9780674065833 (alk. paper)
U1  - 352.2309174927 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Arab countries
KW  - History
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Monarchy
KW  - Authoritarianism
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Pol
KW  - January2013
N1  - 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
ER  -