Download or read book Hybrid Sovereignty in the Arab Middle East written by G. Bacik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides readers with a fresh analysis of the Arab state by using a new theoretical framework: hybrid sovereignty. The author examines various areas to make his argument: citizenship, the issue of minorities, electoral engineering, the failure of central rule, tribalism, and the lack of impersonal bureaucratic mechanism.