Future of the Middle East Talk
Tags: talks
Toby Dodge/Ranj Alaadin
- Protest movements demanding a specific unitary state
- overwheming security sort
- large outcomes on what is being sought
- empowerment of local governments
- powersharing agreements
- compartive politics has addressed how power sharing arrangements promote certain outcomes
- inconclusive
- does power sharing increase gridlock or elite collusion
- what are the different variaties of power sharing (split executive, electoral systems, etc)
- lebanon
- local govs have great deal of responsbiltiy, but are deeply dependant
- responsbility with autonomy
- aka local govs works when closer to multi-party regime
- closes the room on reformist regimes
- local govs have great deal of responsbiltiy, but are deeply dependant
- discussion of change is largely presumed by foreign intervention
- compartive politics has addressed how power sharing arrangements promote certain outcomes
- ariel ahram
- security devolution
- is this an manifestation of one kind of a larger breaking of the state?
- schooling/sanitation/etc
- resilance of societies
- yemen -> weaknest, most vulnerable
- yemenis still believe the monopolgy of the state as a symbol2
- polling in yemen
- SSR challenges -> states are not evaporating normatively even if they are decrepit
- bargins will have to be struck with the shadow of the state attached to it
- yemenis still believe the monopolgy of the state as a symbol2
- joseph bahout
- tensions of pan-arabism and individual state
- what is the identity of the state?
- linda robinson
- minimalist view - stablization projects of post-isis, UNDP involved in ensuring local voices (provicinal led and local council council setup)
- ninewa - provicinal governor has been removed
- minimalist view - stablization projects of post-isis, UNDP involved in ensuring local voices (provicinal led and local council council setup)