ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors investigate the collapse of the state's power, legitimacy, and sovereignty in the Arab core of Middle East and North Africa after the 2011 Arab uprisings. They pay particular attention to the sovereignty, political legitimacy, and territorial integrity of the Arab states. The authors postulate that Arab states’ judicial sovereignty is partially cracked because of the constant occurrence of intra-wars and foreign and regional interventions, direct and indirect. The authors choose Yemen as an example of a failed republic and Iraq as a semi-failed republic, in order to provide an in-depth analysis of the trajectories of state’s collapse in the case of the failed and semi-failed republics. When Nasser came to power in Egypt following the coup of 1952, he inspired millions of Arab youth with his pan-Arab ideology. With the establishment of the 50–50 power-sharing unity government in 1990, Saleh desired to control the unified country using his tribal and military power.
