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5 - Broken States

Iraq, Syria, and ISIS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2020

Stephen J. King
Stephen J. King
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Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Chapter 5 focuses on broken nation-states during the Arab Spring – Iraq, Syria, and the Islamic State –the human suffering broken states cause (even if they “broke” during efforts to implement and sustain democratic politics) and how elites have tried to put the states back together again.

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IraqSyriaIslamic StateAbu Musab Zarqawibroken statesnation
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The Arab Winter
Democratic Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists
 , pp. 249 - 300
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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