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Future of the Middle East Talk

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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
    • discussion of change is largely presumed by foreign intervention
  • 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
  • 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