Description
An examination of the challenge of state-building in the Middle East and North Africa over the past one hundred years
About the Author
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou is Chair of the International History and Politics Department at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, where he is also Professor of International History and Politics. He is the 2021 recipient of the International Studies Association (ISA) Global South Distinguished Scholar Award. He is the author of a trilogy on the post-9/11 world, Contre-Croisade - Le 11 Septembre et le Retournement du Monde (2004), Understanding Al Qaeda - Changing War and Global Politics (2011) and A Theory of ISIS - Political Violence and the Transformation of the Global Order (2018).
Reviews
This timely book highlights the under-researched historical dimension of state-making and unmaking... respond[ing] successfully to the promise in [its] title. With this book's demonstration of historical legacies, MENA state-Building analysis is no longer the complex puzzle it was. -- Bahgat Korany , American University in Cairo and University of Montreal, Canada
Sheds new light on one century of the state system in the modern Middle East ... A powerful and essential book to understand the failure of the state system and its contribution to a century of conflict in the Middle East. Eugene Rogan, Oxford University -- Eugene Rogan, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Oxford University, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9780755601400
Author Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 446g