TY - BOOK AU - Saouli,Adham TI - The Arab state: dilemmas of late formation T2 - Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics SN - 9780415602952 (hbk.) PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - State, The KW - Social aspects KW - Arab countries KW - Philosophy KW - Politics and government KW - 1945- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; States and social fields -- Constructing the Middle East: international anarchy, indigenous responses -- The late-forming state: ontology, dilemmas and conditions of survival -- Saudi Arabia: the survival of a homogeneous state -- Iraq: the survival of a divided state -- Conclusion: why states survive in the Middle East? ER -