Suchergebnisse

Toward a second republic? Algeria and the Amazigh question -- Obscure no longer: Libyan Amazigh in a fractured polity -- Azawad: the abortive republic -- Tunisia: the Amazigh factor enters the realm -- Moroccan Amazigh and the makhzen: from recognition to malaise.

Introduction xi. - I: THE EMERGENCE OF ARAB NATIONALISM: ONE NATION, MANY STATES I. - 1 Arab Nationalism: Modest Beginnings 3. - 2 World War I and Its Aftermath: The Arab Revolt and Unrealized Expectations 15. - 3 State-Building and Nation-Building in Adverse Circumstances 25. - 4 The Dynastic Era: Upheaval, Revolution, and Transition (1945-1954) 47. - 5 The Radical Heyday (1955-1967) 69. - II: FROM ORDER TO DISORDER: THE TRIUMPH AND DECLINE OF ARAB STATES 99. - 6 After the June 1967 Debacle: Picking Up the Pieces (1967-1970) 101. - 7 Diminished Leadership: Egypt and the Arab Order in the Sadat-Mubarak Era (1970-2010) 109. - 8 Failed Aspirations, Failed State: Iraq Under Saddam, and Beyond(1968-2010) 131. - 9 Syria Under the Asad Dynasty: From Weak State to Aspiring Regional Power (1970-2010) 153. - 10 Symbol versus Substance: The Palestinian Movement in the Arab Firmament Since 1967 169. - 11 The Arab Spring: Disorder and Disintegration 185. - Concluding Observations: Whither the Arab System? Whither the Arab State? 213

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Origins and conquests : Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, Arabia -- The colonial era -- Morocco and Algeria : state consolidation and Berber "otherness" -- Algerian strife, Moroccan homeopathy, and the emergence of the Amazigh movement -- Berber identity and the international arena -- Mohamed VI's Morocco and the Amazigh movement -- Bouteflika's Algeria and Kabyle alienation -- Conclusion : whither the state, whither the Berbers?