Statecraft in the Middle East : Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and Security Hardback
by Imad Mansour
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, 3 Maps
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/09/2016
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- ISBN:9781784535803
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, 3 Maps
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:30/09/2016
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- ISBN:9781784535803