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In March 2010, somewhat before the advent of the Arab Spring, historians, biblical scholars, archaeologists, economists, and social scientists gathered in the German city of Marburg to discuss state formation and decline not just in the past or the present Near and Middle East, but as a phenomenon that spans time and region. The 11 papers--most from the conference but some written more recently--consider such aspects as the evolution of fragility: the resistible rise and irresistible fall of early states, the formation and decline of the Aramaean states in Iron Age Syria, ethnicity and state formation in the Levant during the early Iron Age, the role of lingua francas and communication networks in the process of empire building: the Persian Empire, the first Arabic Empire and modern scholarship 622-661, and cooperation over trans-bounder water resources management in the Middle East. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
