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1 online resource (311 pages) |
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Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics |
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Columbia studies in Middle East politics.
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Table of Contents ; A Note on Transliteration and Interviews; Acknowledgments; 1. The Argument and the Cases; 2. Coalitions, State-Building, and Geopolitical Mediation; 3. Conflict and Compromise in Kuwait; 4. Inclusion and Stability in a Populist Autocracy; 5. Cliency and Coercion in Iran; 6. Exclusionary Politics and the Revolutionary End; 7. A Conflict Interrupted in Jordan; 8. Recurrent Tensions and Tenuous Survival Under Hashemite Rule; 9. The Geopolitical Origins of Durable Political Order; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
As colonial rule dissolved in the 1930s and 1950s, Middle Eastern autocrats constructed new political states to solidify their reigns, with varying results. Some proved durable despite economic challenges and devastating wars, such as the Sabah regime of Kuwait, which faced little opposition and enjoyed mass support. Others such as the Hashemite monarchy of Jordan barely survived the twentieth century, tested repeatedly by uprisings from within and pressures from beyond. Still others were deposed through revolutionary upheavals as popular forces mobilized to overthrow their despotic reign, as |
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In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Authoritarianism -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century
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Political stability -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern.
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Authoritarianism.
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Political stability.
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Intervention
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Destabilisierung
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Politische Ordnung
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Middle East.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231540278 |
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0231540272 |
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