Bulletin n. 3/2007
December 2007
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Guazzone Laura, Pioppi Daniela
    Globalisation and the Restructuring of State Power in the Arab World
    in International Spectator (The) , Vol. XLII, n. 4, October-December ,  2007
    The dynamics of change in the Arab world today are part of a much larger global process - the neo-liberal phase of globalisation - that started in the 1980s and engendered a process of state power restructuring, both for peripheral "weak" states and core industrialised countries. Beyond national differences, the restructuring of the Arab states has implied the consolidation of neo-authoritarian political regimes characterised by fragmentation of the power structure and by an increase in informal modes of government (neo-patrimonialism, corruption), accompanied by the parallel political and economic marginalisation of large sectors of society. These less centralised and more elitist regimes are likely to be more dependent and vulnerable than their predecessors to external pressures and foreign influence.
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