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Federalism and decentralization in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa
Title
Federalism and decentralization in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa / edited by Aslı Ü. Bâli, Omar M. Dajani.
ISBN
9781108923682 (ebook)
9781108831239 (hardback)
9781108926584 (paperback)
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 426 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Summary
This volume, the first of its kind in the English language, examines the law and politics of federalism and decentralization in the Middle East and North Africa. Comprised of eleven case studies examining the experience across the region, together with essays by leading scholars providing comparative and theoretical perspectives and a synthetic conclusion by the co-editors, the volume offers a textured portrait of the dilemmas of decentralization during a period of sweeping transition in the region. The collection addresses an important gap in the comparative decentralization literature, which has largely neglected the MENA region. Both retrospective and forward-looking in orientation, the book is a valuable resource not only for scholars of comparative politics, constitutional design, and Middle East studies, but also for policy makers evaluating the feasibility and efficacy of decentralization as a vehicle for improving governance and responding to identity conflict in any part of the world.
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Cambridge core frontlist 2023.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 31, 2023
Series
ASCL studies in comparative law
Contents
Introduction : from revolution to devolution? / Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani
Decentralization to manage identity conflicts / Philip G. Roeder
Devolution and the promotion (or evasion) of minority rights / Will Kymlicka
Constitutional design options for territorial cleavages in the Middle East / Tom Ginsburg
How decentralization efforts have recentralized authority in the Arab World / Mona Harb and Sami Atallah
Decentralization, ideology, and law in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Kian Tajbakhsh
Salvaging state legitimacy in Iraq through decentralization / Ali Al-Mawlawi
Decentralization reforms in post-revolution Tunisia : the struggle between political and bureaucratic elites / Intissar Kherigi
Autonomy beyond the state / Joost Jongerden
The devil is in the details : Iraqi Kurdistan's evolving autonomy / Peter Bartu and Aidan MacEachern
Turkish Kurdistan : decentralization reimagined / Aslı Ü. Bâli
Control, responsibility, and the Israeli-Palestinian decentralization debacle / Sari Bashi
'Stuck together' : can a two-state confederation end the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Omar M. Dajani and Dahlia Scheindlin
'Dans ses frontiers authentiques'? : Morocco's advanced regionalization and the question of Western Sahara / Omar Yousef Shehabi
Devolution and federalism in collapsed states : constitutional process and design / George Anderson and Sujit Choudhry
The Promise - and limits - of stabilization through local governance in Libya / Karim Mezran and Elissa Miller
Decentralization in state disintegration : an examination of governance experiments in Syria / Samer Araabi and Leila Hilal
De-centralization in Yemen : the Case of the Federalist Draft Constitution of 2015 / Benoît Challand
Federalism and decentralization in the MENA region : types and trajectories / Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani.
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