Sovereignty after empire : comparing the Middle East and Central Asia

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817533503321
• Autore: Cummings Sally N.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-7486-5327-9; 0-7486-7539-6; 1-283-25279-1; 9786613252791; 0-7486-4754-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (409 p.)
• Classificazione: 320
• Disciplina: 320.15
• Soggetti: Postcolonialism; Sovereignty; Politik og stat; Suverænitet; Postkolonialisme; Asia, Central Colonial influence; Asia, Central Politics and government; Middle East Colonial influence; Middle East Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-390) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Contributors; 1Introduction; Section I Histories of Empire and After; 2 Russian Empires; 3 The British and French Empires in the Arab World: Some Problems of Colonial State-formation and its Legacy; 4 Ottoman Legacies and Economic Sovereignty in Post-imperial Anatolia, Syria and Iraq; Section II Paths to Sovereignty: Views from the Core and Periphery; 5 Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire and After; 6 Mandated Sovereignty? The Role of International Law in the Construction of Arab Statehood during and after Empire; 7 Reluctant Sovereigns? Central Asian States' Path to IndependenceSection III Empire and Domestic Sovereignty; 8 The ; Middle East after Empire: Sovereignty and Institutions; 9 Sovereignty after Empire: The Colonial Roots of Central Asian Authoritarianism; Section IV Empire and Popular Sovereignty; 10 Culture, Colonialism and Sovereignty in Central Asia; 11 Culture in the Middle East: The "Western Question" and the Sovereignty of Post-imperial States in the Middle East; 12 Pathways of Islamist Mobilization against the State in the Middle East and Central Asia; Section V Empire and External Sovereignty13 Empire and State Formation: Contrary Tangents in Jordan and Syria; 14 Rentierism, Dependency and Sovereignty in Central Asia; 15 Tajikistan: From de facto Colony to Sovereign Dependency; 16Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a unique, systematic comparison of empires and of their consequences for sovereignty in the Middle East and Central Asia. It brings theory on empire and sovereignty to bear on empirical variation across the two regions.