Statecraft in the Middle East
Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and Security
Statecraft in the Middle East
Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and Security
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
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
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | 27 Sep 2016 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781786721419 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Illustrations | 3 maps |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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