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The expansion of the modern state system in Arab countries caused great changes. Many Western institutions and forms were brought into the region, mainly by colonial rule and Ottoman modernization. The historical Arab region was reinvented in the Western image. A Western understanding of sovereignty was imported into it.
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Bacik, G. (2008). Introduction. In: Hybrid Sovereignty in the Arab Middle East. The Middle East In Focus. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230610347_1
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