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dc.contributor.authorHinnebusch, Raymond
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-01T00:31:56Z
dc.date.available2018-01-01T00:31:56Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier247678894
dc.identifier4b923868-b58a-4a53-87bb-8822aa3c38d9
dc.identifier85011356931
dc.identifier000390084600004
dc.identifier.citationHinnebusch , R 2016 , ' State de-construction in Iraq and Syria ' , Politische Vierteljahresschrift , vol. 57 , no. 4 , pp. 560-585 . https://doi.org/10.5771/0032-3470-2016-4-560en
dc.identifier.issn0032-3470
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5800-6606/work/60630144
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/12401
dc.description.abstractIn International Historical Sociology, states and states systems co-constitute each other. While IHS focuses on state formation, this paper argues that state de-formation, and in its extremes, state failure, is also “co-constituted.” In Syria and Iraq, state failure was co-constituted through an interaction between internal insurgencies and the Western interventions aiming at regime change. Iraq and Syria were created by Western imperialism as weak states suffering from identity fragmentation and pervasive irredentism. Ba’thist state builders used populist versions of neo-patrimonialism to consolidate regimes but excluded social forces were permanently poised for rebellion and regime decline gave them opportunities to bid for power. Nevertheless, external intervention was the extra factor that initiated state de-construction and tipped both into failed states. In Iraq the US invasion deconstructed the existing state and established a sectarian based regime bound to fail. In Syria, shrinking inclusiveness led to revolt but external intervention, making it a battleground of regional and global powers, tipped the country into a failed state. Two failed states left a vacuum in which IS arose, inviting yet a further round of external intervention.
dc.format.extent25
dc.format.extent211619
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPolitische Vierteljahresschriften
dc.subjectIraqen
dc.subjectSyriaen
dc.subjectPoliticsen
dc.subjectstate failureen
dc.subjectJZ International relationsen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccJZen
dc.titleState de-construction in Iraq and Syriaen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of International Relationsen
dc.identifier.doi10.5771/0032-3470-2016-4-560
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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