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Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa

Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa

Name: Federalism and Decentralization in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108831239
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Author: Aslı Bâli, Ü.; Omar M. Dajani
ISBN: 9781108831239

Edited by Aslı Bâli, Ü. · Omar M. Dajani

Cambridge University Press January 2023

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ISBN-13: 9781108831239
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: January 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

1. Introduction: from revolution to devolution?

Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani

Part I. Theoretical and Comparative Context:

2. Decentralization to manage identity conflicts

Philip G. Roeder

3. Devolution and the promotion (or evasion) of minority rights

Will Kymlicka

4. Constitutional design options for territorial cleavages in the Middle East

Tom Ginsburg

5. How decentralization efforts have recentralized authority in the Arab world

Mona Harb and Sami Atallah

Part II. Decentralization and Governance Reform:

6. Decentralization, ideology, and law in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Kian Tajbakhsh

7. Salvaging state legitimacy in Iraq through decentralization

Ali Al-Mawlawi

8. Decentralization Reforms in post-revolution Tunisia: the struggle between political and bureaucratic elites

Intissar Kherigi

Part III. Decentralization and Self-Determination:

9. Autonomy beyond the state

Joost Jongerden

10. The Devil is in the details: Iraqi Kurdistan's evolving autonomy

Peter Bartu and Aidan MacEachern

11. Turkish Kurdistan: decentralization reimagined

Aslı Ü. Bâli

12. Control, responsibility, and the Israeli-Palestinian decentralization debacle

Sari Bashi

13. 'Stuck together': can a two-state confederation end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Omar M. Dajani and Dahlia Scheindlin

14. 'Dans ses frontiers authentiques'? Morocco's advanced regionalization and the question of Western Sahara

Omar Yousef Shehabi

Part IV. Decentralization, Conflict, and State Fragmentation:

15. Devolution and federalism in collapsed states: constitutional process and design

George Anderson and Sujit Choudhry

16. The promise – and limits – of stabilization through local governance in Libya

Karim Mezran and Elissa Miller

17. Decentralization in state disintegration: an examination of governance experiments in Syria

Samer Araabi and Leila Hilal

18. De-centralization in Yemen: the case of the federalist draft constitution of 2015

Benoît Challand

Part V. Conclusions:

19. Federalism and decentralization in the MENA region: types and trajectories

Aslı Ü. Bâli and Omar M. Dajani

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