How Border Peripheries are Changing the Nature of Arab States
1. Introduction, Maha Yahya -- 2. Smuggling and State Formation: A Match Made in Algeria, Dalia Ghanem -- 3.Cronies and Contraband: Why Integrating Tunisia's Informal Economic Elite Has Become Necessary, Hamza Meddeb -- 4. North Pacific: Why Lebanon's Akkar Region Weathered the Syrian Conflict, Maha Yahya and Mohanad Hage Ali -- 5. Transnationalization of a Borderland: Center, Periphery, and Identity in Western Iraq, Harith Hasan -- 6. Hadramawt's Emergence as a Center: A Confluence of Yemeni Circumstances and Hadrami Resourcefulness, Ahmed Nagi -- 7. How Syria's War Extended Border Policies to Much of the Country, Kheder Khaddour and Kevin Mazur -- 8. The Center Gives: Southern Syria and the Rise of New Peripheral Powerbrokers, Armenak Tokmajyan -- 9. On the Edge: How Risks from Iraq Have Helped Form Kuwaiti Identity, Bader Al-Saif.