Introduction: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World since 2010,
1. State-crafting and Modes of Governance in the United Arab Emirates,
2. Community Organizing and the Limits of Participatory Democracy in Lebanon,
3. Archiving in an Age of (Counter)Revolutions,
4. Class Power, the State and Contentious Politics in the age of Globalization: The case of Egypt,
5. Same Different? A Comparative Study of Kurdish-Led Rojava and Opposition-Held Syria,
6. Postcolonial State-ness and the Case of Rawabi,
7. Lebanon’s Wadi Khaled and Challenge of Sovereignty,
8. Egyptian State and Culture,
9. How Diplomatic Practices Make the Fuzzy State of Palestine Visible,
10. Daesh and the "Effect of the State",
11. Conclusion: The Westphalian State Effect