January 01, 2005 | 348 Pages | ArabicChallenges of Decentralization and Local Governments in the Arab World A book aggregating a collection of studies on the issues of decentralization and local governance in the Arab world, scrutinizing the legal, administrative, and bureaucratic structures that hinder the process of decentralization. This book deals extensively with the cases of several Arab countries in which the governing regime has been exposed to several degrees of decentralization, highlighting successful experiences.