Sovereignty After Empire

Sally N. Cummings is Senior Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. Her publications include Domestic and International Perspectives on Kyrgyzstan's 'Tulip Revolution' (ed.) (Taylor & Francis, 2009), Kazakhstan: Power and the Elite (IB Tauris, 2005), Oil, Transition and Security in Central Asia (ed.) (Routledge, 2003) and Kazakhstan: Centre-Periphery Relations (Brookings Institution, 2000). Raymond Hinnebusch is Professor of International Relations and Middle East Politics at the University of St Andrews. His books include The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences, co- edited with Rick Fawn (Lynne Rienner Press, 2006), The International Politics of the Middle East (Manchester University Press, 2003), The Foreign Policies of Middle East States, edited with A. Ehteshami (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press, 2002), Syria: Revolution from Above (London: Routledge, 2001), The Syrian-Iranian Alliance: Middle Powers in a Penetrated Regional System, with Anoushiravan Ehteshami (London: Routledge, 1997), Syria and the Middle East Peace Process, with Alasdair Drysdale (Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1991), Authoritarian Power and State Formation in Ba`thist Syria: Army, Party and Peasant (Westview Press, 1990), Peasant and Bureaucracy in Ba`thist Syria: The Political Economy of Rural Development (Westview Press, 1989) and Egyptian Politics Under Sadat (Cambridge University Press, 1985).

In this innovative book, leading international scholars compare notes on the experiences of post-Soviet Central Asia and the successor states of the Ottoman Empire. Theoretically rigorous and informed by important new research, each contributor sheds original light on these diverse Muslim states' transition from empire to sovereignty. A common cultural legacy grounded in Islamic history and a present reliance on hydrocarbons makes this study of two geostrategic regions required reading for scholars and decision makers alike.

• 1. Introduction, Sally N. Cummings and Raymond Hinnebusch; Section One: Histories of Empire and After; 2. Russian Empires, Dominic Lieven; 3. The British and French empires in the Arab world: Some problems of colonial state-formation and its legacy, James McDougall; 4. Ottoman Legacies and Economic Sovereignty in Post-Imperial Anatolia, Syria and Iraq, Fred Lawson; Section Two: Paths to Sovereignty - Views from the Core and Periphery; 5. Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire and After, Ben Fortna; 6. Mandated Sovereignty? The Role of International Law in the Construction of Arab Statehood during and after Empire, Michelle Burgis; 7. Reluctant sovereigns? Central Asian states' path to independence, Mohira Suyarkulova; Section Three: Empire and Domestic Sovereignty; 8. The Middle East after Empire: Sovereignty and Institutions, Louise Fawcett; 9. Sovereignty after empire: the colonial roots of Central Asian authoritarianism, David Lewis; Section Four: Empire and Popular Sovereignty; 10. Culture, Colonialism and Sovereignty in Central Asia, Laura L. Adams; 11. Culture in the Middle East: the 'Western Question' and the sovereignty of post-imperial states in the Middle East, Morten Valbjørn; 12. Pathways of Islamist mobilisation against the state in the Middle East and Central Asia, Frederic Volpi; Section Five: Empire and External Sovereignty; 13. Empire and State Formation: Contrary tangents in Jordan and Syria, Raymond Hinnebusch; 14. Rentierism, Dependency and Sovereignty in Central Asia, Wojciech Ostrowski; 15. Tajikistan: from de facto colony to sovereign dependency, Muriel Atkin; Conclusions, Sally N. Cummings and Raymond Hinnebusch