Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction: New Authoritarian Practices in the MENA Region: Key Developments and Trends
- 2 Maintaining Order in Algeria: Upgrading Repressive Practices under a Hybrid Regime
- 3 The Authoritarian Topography of the Bahraini State: Political Geographies of Power and Protest
- 4 Authoritarian Repression Under Sisi: New Tactics or New Tools?
- 5 Deep Society and New Authoritarian Social Control in Iran after the Green Movement
- 6 Silencing Peaceful Voices: Practices of Control and Repression in Post-2003 Iraq
- 7 Israel/Palestine: Authoritarian Practices in the Context of a Dual State Crisis
- 8 Jordan: A Perpetually Liberalising Autocracy
- 9 Libya: Authoritarianism in a Fractured State
- 10 ‘The Freedom of No Speech’: Journalists and the Multiple Layers of Authoritarian Practices in Morocco
- 11 New Authoritarian Practices in Qatar: Censorship by the State and the Self
- 12 Digital Repression for Authoritarian Evolution in Saudi Arabia
- 13 The Evolution of the Sudanese Authoritarian State: The December Uprising and the Unravelling of a ‘Persistent’ Autocracy
- 14 Authoritarian Nostalgia and Practices in Newly Democratising Contexts: The Localised Example of Tunisia
- 15 An Assemblage of New Authoritarian Practices in Turkey
- 16 The United Arab Emirates: Evolving Authoritarian Tools
- 17 Authoritarian Practice and Fragmented Sovereignty in Post-uprising Yemen
- Index
17 - Authoritarian Practice and Fragmented Sovereigntyin Post-uprising Yemen
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction: New Authoritarian Practices in the MENA Region: Key Developments and Trends
- 2 Maintaining Order in Algeria: Upgrading Repressive Practices under a Hybrid Regime
- 3 The Authoritarian Topography of the Bahraini State: Political Geographies of Power and Protest
- 4 Authoritarian Repression Under Sisi: New Tactics or New Tools?
- 5 Deep Society and New Authoritarian Social Control in Iran after the Green Movement
- 6 Silencing Peaceful Voices: Practices of Control and Repression in Post-2003 Iraq
- 7 Israel/Palestine: Authoritarian Practices in the Context of a Dual State Crisis
- 8 Jordan: A Perpetually Liberalising Autocracy
- 9 Libya: Authoritarianism in a Fractured State
- 10 ‘The Freedom of No Speech’: Journalists and the Multiple Layers of Authoritarian Practices in Morocco
- 11 New Authoritarian Practices in Qatar: Censorship by the State and the Self
- 12 Digital Repression for Authoritarian Evolution in Saudi Arabia
- 13 The Evolution of the Sudanese Authoritarian State: The December Uprising and the Unravelling of a ‘Persistent’ Autocracy
- 14 Authoritarian Nostalgia and Practices in Newly Democratising Contexts: The Localised Example of Tunisia
- 15 An Assemblage of New Authoritarian Practices in Turkey
- 16 The United Arab Emirates: Evolving Authoritarian Tools
- 17 Authoritarian Practice and Fragmented Sovereignty in Post-uprising Yemen
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Authoritarian governance in pre-2011 Yemen conformed tomany of the stereotypes about the MENA region, inwhich a dominant president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, leda political party, the General People's Congress,which occupied a central role in political life.Saleh's position depended on a number of stratagems,ranging from co-option of elites and oppositionpolitical figures to external patronage, theco-option and/or penetration of civil society and,when necessary, the wielding of outright repressionagainst political opponents. Saleh lost power in theaftermath of Yemen's 2011 uprising, after which acombination of external actors and domestic elitesfashioned a transitional plan for the reconstructionof Yemeni politics. The fracturing of this elitebargain in the face of popular discontent andregional challenges ultimately led to civil war andexternal intervention in 2015 to prop up the shakypost-Saleh status quo. In post-2015 Yemen, it hasbecome effectively meaningless to talk about theauthoritarian practices of a centralised stateeither in response to opposition or in pursuit ofregime maintenance. Rather, what has developed is afragmented polity in which the power of the centralstate is severely constricted by the emergence ofsignificant sub-state actors (with externalpatronage) and in which the adoption ofauthoritarian forms of control is no longer themonopoly of any single actor, state or non-state.This chapter will review these developments and, inparticular, will examine the question of what itmeans to speak of authoritarian governance in afragmented state in the course of a conflict inwhich the power of the central government iscontested.
Areas of Limited Statehood and HeterarchicalSecurity Orders
The aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings has up-endedaccepted wisdom regarding sovereignty in the MiddleEast. With the exception of Tunisia, regimeschallenged by popular mobilisation responded withviolence against their citizens, leading to amilitarisation of politics and societies. In manyinstances, popular mobilisation led to a breakdownof previously established governing practices andthe fragmentation of the apparatus of the state.Regimes responded by building new authoritarianregimes out of the remains of what had previouslyexisted often with the assistance of transnationalpartners.
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- New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa , pp. 340 - 357Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2022