Adaptable Autocrats: Regime Power in Egypt and Syria (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) - Hardcover

Stacher, Joshua

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ISBN 10: 0804780625 ISBN 13: 9780804780629

Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2012

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"Stacher delivers key insights into the paradox of the rapid fall of the strong executive in Egypt's highly centralized state in 2011, while Syria's much more decentralized state hangs on to power. This timely work provides a rare window on elites and their alliances and struggles. It is a must read for those who wish to better understand whether the 'Arab Spring' will lead to the redistribution of political and economic power by limiting executive authority, or merely replace one elite group with another." -- Diane Singerman * American University * "Recommended Reading . . . [T]he value of analysis and insight is very high, rewarding the reader." -- Global Ministries "'If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.' Joshua Stacher's Adaptable Autocrats opens with this line from Lampedusa's The Leopard and proceeds to illustrate its wisdom, showing how power seeks to preserve itself and therefore how the seemingly inflexible authoritarian regimes of Syria and Egypt bent with the winds of the Arab Spring without breaking." -- Maria Golia "This is one of the best, most concrete explorations of developments in Egyptian and Syrian politics over the last decade. Stacher provides an original look at the inner workings and dynamics of two vitally important regimes in the Arab world and lays out the implications for the future of the significant differences between these two political systems." -- Samer Shehata * Georgetown University * "Stacher (Kent State Univ.) offers a theoretical explanation for the different developments in Egypt and Syria following the Arab Spring. Stacher argues that Anwar Sadat depoliticized state institutions and Hosni Mubarak followed the trend, but Hafez al-Assad nurtured politicized institutions. The Egyptian centralized elite could remove Mubarak when he became a liability, but the decentralized Syrian elite could not remove Bashar al-Assad. . . Recommended." -- F. L. Mokhtari * Choice * "Stacher's book makes several key contributions to the literature on Arab and Middle East politics. . . . [I]t will be of great interest to scholars, analysts , policy-makers, and students alike. For those interested in the dynamics of Egypt, Syria, or autocracy in general, it will be essential reading." -- Curtis R. Ryan "This is a fine work of comparative politics that systematically examines Syrian and Egyptian political histories to expose unexpected differences despite oft-cited commonalities . . . The existing body of work has taken three forms: studies of specific cases, multiauthored edited volumes, or general models of Arab or Middle Eastern authoritarianism based on schematic readings from across the region. Adaptable Autocrats deftly moves beyond these repertoires by simultaneously historicizing these revolutionary moments and revealing their limits through a paired comparison." -- Arang Keshavarzian * Arab Studies Journal Reviews *

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Comparing Egypt and Syria, this book argues that Arab states where executive power is more centralized are better at adapting to prevent regime change than states where decentralized relationships prevails.

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• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0804780625
• ISBN 13: 9780804780629
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242