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The first half of 2011 saw an explosion of revolt and uprising across the Arab world from Yemen to Morocco. As of July 2012, the leaders of Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt have been overthrown and Syria is in the midst of civil war. Attempts to analyze these developments, collectively referred to in popular jargon as the “Arab Spring,” have served to prompt further comparative analysis of the interrelations between religious and ethnic identities, nationalism, and state formation in the MENA region. While accepting the relevance of comparative analysis throughout the MENA region, this chapter, for reasons of expediency, confines itself to discussion of Arab states.
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Boulby, M. (2013). Extra-Regional Interests, Authoritarian Elites, and Dependent State Formation in the Arab World. In: Christie, K., Masad, M. (eds) State Formation and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137369604_3
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