Limited Statehood and Informal Governance in the Middle East and Africa

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Hybrid forms of governance – where the central state authority does not possess a monopoly of violence and fails to exercise control – are not only an epiphenomena, but a reality likely to persist. This book explores this phenomenon drawing on examples from the Middle East and Africa. It considers the different sorts of actors – state and non-state, public and private, national and transnational – which possess power, examines the dynamics of the relationships between central authorities and other actors, and reviews the varying outcomes. The book provides an alternative view of the way in which governance has been constructed and lived, puts forward a conceptualisation of various forms of governance which have hitherto been regarded as exceptions, and argues for such forms of governance to be regarded as part of the norm. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of contributors Foreward: hybrid governance in areas of limited statehood Introduction: hybrid governance in the Middle East and Africa Part I International interventions and the interplay between formal and informal governance 1 Fluid concepts and understandings redefined: states, porous borders and transnational militant actors in Syria 2 Limited statehood and the politics of security governance in the TRNC 3 (In)securitizing Somalia’s territorial waters as an area of limited statehood 4 Limited statehood in a shattered state: territorial and economic challenges to the construct of the Iraqi state 5 Trials and tribulations: the challenges of building a sustainable state in South Sudan 6 Interventions and sovereignty limitations in Libya Part II Domestic agency and dynamics 7 The margins at the core: Boko Haram’s impact on hybrid governance on Lake Chad 8 Competing orders in cross-border areas of limited statehood: the cases of southern Tunisia and northern Mali micro-regions 9 Resisting or appropriating: two approaches in the study of aid, violent non-state actors, and governance 10 Somalia, fragmented hybrid governance and inclusive development 11 Mediating security – hybridity and clientelism in Lebanon’s hybrid security sector 12 Micro formations of hybrid security governance in ethnic riots: mapping the interworkings of state forces, vigilantes, residents, thugs, and armed mobs in the violent slums of Jos, Nigeria 13 Leadership changes and rebels’ goals in Areas of Limited Statehood (ALS) in the Middle East: Libya, Iraq and Yemen Conclusions: Hybrid governance in the Middle East and Africa Index