Reprint

The Fragility-Grievances-Conflict Triangle in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Edited by
March 2022
206 pages
  • ISBN978-3-0365-3584-5 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-0365-3583-8 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue The Fragility-Grievances-Conflict Triangle in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) that was published in

Business & Economics
Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary

Several problems related to violence, grievances, and states’ lack of legitimacy and capacity to manage economic, social, and political issues are clustered together as an interactive structure in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region. The effect of one of these problems is difficult to identify in the absence of analyses of the others. Global generalisations on the effects of these problems can bring us closer to the understanding of state fragility and the associated problems in the MENA region, although the study of MENA specifically also reveals region- and sub-region-specific features. Some of them pertain to the MENA region only, whereas others help develop the understanding and sophistication of global generalisations. This book offers a much-needed overview and several explanations on the otherwise confusing triangular problems of state fragility, grievance, and conflict, focusing on one of the conflict hotspots of the world. It compiles expertise on the triangular relationship between fragility, grievances, and conflict of an international MENA Social Policy Network. In addition to the analyses, two datasets are referenced, on which some of the book’s chapters are based.

Format
  • Hardback
License and Copyright
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
state fragility; conflict; MENA; Middle East; failed states; weak states; conflict fatalities; corruption; informal employment; social security; state effectiveness; Maghreb countries; individual preferences; discrete choice model; Arab Spring; participation; protesting; probit model; Iraq; Middle East; terrorism; violent extremism; Social Identity; threat; fragmentation; grievances; Shia; Sunni; factionalism; rebel governance; Hamas; Gaza; Palestine; informal institutions; state fragility; social contract; social protection; Middle East and North Africa; state–society relations; protection; provision; participation; government legitimacy; service delivery; state legitimacy; conflict; social policy; Middle East and North Africa; social protection; social expenditure; conflict; mediation; PH theory; Israel; Palestine; ripeness; subsidy reform; social contract; government legitimacy; Middle East and North Africa (MENA); Morocco; Egypt; Iran; protection; provision; political participation; n/a

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