Bendebka, Ramzi (2026) The existential crisis of statehood: proliferation and operational impacts of proxy warfare in Middle Eastern conflicts. Eurasia Review. pp. 1-9. ISSN 2330-717X
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Abstract
The nation-state has been the most contested and least taken-for-granted political form in the modern Middle East. The territorial map of the region, largely laid out during the imperial reordering of the post-World War I era, has remained cartographically persistent. Still, the internal substance of state sovereignty in the region has been increasingly eroded. Following the Arab Uprisings of 2011, it was widely predicted that the borders drawn by Sykes-Picot were destined to disappear due to the free movement of people or sub-state fragmentation, but this never came to pass. Practical administrative powers of the States wielded within these borders, however, have greatly eroded, and the gap between de facto administrative control and domestic legitimacy, and de jure legal sovereignty (international recognition), has significantly widened.
| Item Type: | Article (Electronic Media) |
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| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button): | Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Political Science |
| Depositing User: | Dr Ramzi Bendebka |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2026 12:09 |
| Last Update: | 04 Nov 2026 12:09 |
| Queue Number: | 2026-10-Q5978 |
| URI: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/132428 |
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