Beyond Coercion: The Durability of the Arab State (Nation, State and Integration in the Arab World, Vol 3)

Adeed Dawisha is distinguished professor of political science at Miami University in Ohio. His books include "Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century" (Princeton), "Syria and the Lebanese Crisis", and "Egypt in the Arab World".

I. William Zartman is an internationally known analyst and theoretician of the negotiation process. He is Professor Emeritus of Conflict Resolution at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University, member of the steering committee of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program at Clingendael (The Netherlands), member of the UN Academic Advisory Council on the Mediation Initiative, and advisor to the Secretary-General, and holds an honorary doctorate from Louvain University (Belgium) and a doctorate from Yale University. He is author and/or editor of two dozen books. Dr Zartman is associated with a number of key concepts in negotiation analysis, such as formula, ripeness and diagnosis. He has offered a new analytical framework for evaluating international regimes as recursive negotiations rather than as compliance.