Overview
- Fills a gap in the political literature on statehood in post-2011 Tunisia
- Uses case studies to consider how the relationship between the state and societal forces have been reshaped
- Offers arguments that reflect on the entire MENA region’s evolving political systems
Part of the book series: Reform and Transition in the Mediterranean (RTM)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- Arab uprisings in Tunisia
- post-revolutionary Tunisia
- limited statehood in Tunisia
- citizenship in Tunisia
- Tunisian economy
- security in Tunisia
- Arab Spring in Tunisia
- state-society relations in Tunisia
- democratic transition in Tunisia
- statehood in the MENA region
- democracy in the MENA region
- Tunisian politics
- MENA politics
- political participation in Tunisia
- Tunisia and the EU
- Areas of Limited Statehood
- Tunisian Constitution 2014
- democracy
- citizenship
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Reviews
“Compared to the huge amount of literature on post-revolutionary Tunisia, this timely book brings a fresh perspective. While narratives describe why and how political transition succeeds in this country whereas elsewhere it failed, Ruth Hanau Santini circumvents the redundant dissertations on its “exceptionalism” by bringing back the state in society. And even from this point of view, the author forsakes the Leviathan state to focus on its Achilles’ heel: an inability to impose the monopoly of force, a lack of capacity to implement significant decisions, a contradiction between rhetoric and action, a hiatus between expectations and realisations and a multiplication of sources of power. The book then illuminates the complex and contentious dynamics working state-society relations in the post-2011 Tunisia, by exploring three empirical Areas of Limited Statehood: citizenship, economy, and security. Now any theory on Tunisia must cope with this original and stimulating book.” (Professor Hamadi Redissi, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ruth Hanau Santini is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Italy. Her research deals with European foreign policy towards the Middle East and North Africa, geopolitics of the Middle East and issues of citizenship in North Africa. She was previously Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington DC and Associate Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Europe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Limited Statehood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
Book Subtitle: Citizenship, Economy and Security
Authors: Ruth Hanau Santini
Series Title: Reform and Transition in the Mediterranean
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74406-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74405-6Published: 23 March 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74406-3Published: 14 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2945-641X
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6428
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 119
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: African Politics, Middle Eastern Politics, Democracy, Citizenship