Lecture by Eberhard Kienle at the Institute about
23 january 2018
Lecture

Lecture by Eberhard Kienle at the Institute about "The resilience of the failing State"

Tuesday 23 January 2018 at 6pm at the IAS-Nantes.

Eberhard Kienle is research director at the CNRS in the field of sociology and political economy in the Middle East. He also was director of the French Institute of the Middle East between 2013-2017. His lecture will be held in the Simone Weil Amphitheater and is titled "The resilience of the failing State".

The recent political developments in the Middle East are reminiscent of the fragility of states once considered stable, consolidated and even strong. According to the dominant narrative, the trajectory of Syria and Iraq is marked by their disintegration which, in the end, should result in their disappearance. Without denying the centrifugal dynamics, this intervention explores the factors that provide "failed states" with residual resilience and thus confirm the failings of an already contested concept.