Statecraft in the Middle East : foreign policy, domestic politics and security
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Statecraft in the Middle East : foreign policy, domestic politics and security
(Library of international relations, 80)
I.B. Tauris, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-277) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What role do ideas play in state-building and state activity? Thisbook argues that government policies in both foreign relationsand domestic politics must always be situated within a broaderideational and societal context. Imad Mansour analyses how governments in thecontemporary Middle East have governed internally and acted externally basedon societal narratives, which bring together a variety of ideas about a society'shistory and place in the world. He argues that there is a dominant societalnarrative that acts as a primary building block of statecraft, where statecraftis understood as an ongoing set of local, regional and global state-buildingprocesses. Mansour investigates the ways in which statecraft in the Middle Easthas been guided by narratives through a close historical reading and comparativediscussion of the political activity of six states - Egypt, Israel, Syria, Turkey,Saudi Arabia and Iran - in the second half of the twentieth century and the earlytwenty-first century. His book demonstrates the analytical power of narrativesin understanding statecraft and explains why governments' decisions need to beunderstood in complex ways.
Table of Contents
Content
A Framework for Analysing Statecraft
Statecraft in Egypt
Statecraft in Israel
Statecraft in Syria
Statecraft in Turkey
Statecraft in Saudi Arabia
Statecraft in Iran
Concluding Remarks: The Arab Spring, Theoretical Observations on Statecraft and Future Research
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