In:
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 50, No. 2 ( 2018-05), p. 323-327
Kurzfassung:
Since 2011, Arab states have faced unprecedented challenges to their territorial integrity. Movements in Kurdistan, southern Arabia, and Cyrenaica have all made unilateral bids to secure administrative and coercive control over territory. While some disavow secessionism, their agendas for separation clearly undermine their respective parent state, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. Added to this is the Islamic State (IS), intent on breaking all the borders of the region and establishing a new caliphate. It is easy to see the emergence and empowerment of these movements as steps in the crumbling of artificial colonially constructed states and the reassertion of more ancient and organic clan, sect, and tribal allegiances. Yet these movements represent less a reversion to primoridialism than a reassertion of claims to self-determination that had been overridden in the course of 20th-century state formation.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0020-7438
,
1471-6380
DOI:
10.1017/S0020743818000211
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publikationsdatum:
2018
ZDB Id:
2053871-6
SSG:
0
SSG:
7,6
SSG:
6,23
