| Description |
1 online resource (170 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics |
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Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; The Arab State; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Prologue; 1. States and social fields; 2. Constructing the Middle East: International anarchy, indigenous responses; 3. The late-forming state: Ontology, dilemmas and conditions of survival; 4. Saudi Arabia: The survival of a homogeneous state; 5. Iraq: The survival of a divided state; 6. Conclusion: Why do states survive in the Middle East?; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book explores the conditions of state formation and survival in the Middle East. Based on Historical Sociology, it provides a model for study of the state in the Arab world and a theory to explain its survival. Examining states as a 'process', the author argues that what emerged in the Middle East in the beginning of the twentieth century are 'social fields'--where states form and deform--and not states as defined by Max Weber. He explores the constitutions of these fields--their cultural, material and political structures--and identifies three stages of state development in which differe |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
State, The -- Philosophy
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State, The -- Social aspects -- Arab countries
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Politics and government
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State, The -- Philosophy
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State, The -- Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Arab countries -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006286
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| Subject |
Arab countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203151181 |
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0203151186 |
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