Federalism in the Middle East: State Reconstruction Projects and the Arab Spring (Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region)

The book looks into the background and prerequisites of the federalist experiments of the “Arab Spring”, describes their evolution and current state, and assesses the prospects for the future. It is, therefore, a must-read for scholars of political science, as well as policy-makers interested in a better understanding of previous and current developments in the Arab countries.

Andrey Zakharov (Ph.D. in Philosophy) is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of History, Political Science, and Law at the Russian State University of Humanities. The area of his research is comparative federalism, on which he has published several books. He is an editor of “Neprikosnovenny Zapas: Debaty o Politike i Kulture” (Neprikosnovenny Zapas: Debates on Politics and Culture) magazine, one of the leading intellectual periodicals in Russia. From 1990 to 1995, he served as a member of the Russian Parliament. He is an expert of the Gorbachev Foundation.