This book provides readers with a fresh analysis of the Arab state by using a new theoretical framework: hybrid sovereignty. The author examines various areas to make his argument: citizenship, the issue of minorities, electoral engineering, the failure of central rule, tribalism, and the lack of impersonal bureaucratic mechanism.

Autorentext
Gökhan Bacik is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Fatih University.

Inhalt
The Theoretical Framework * The Genesis of Western Model in Kuwait, Jordan and Iraq * Kuwait: A Nation in the Minority * Jordan: The Competition of Different Constitutiencies * Iraq: Statehood in Catastrophe * Final Remarks and A Few Projects