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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 different cases can be located. Capturing the dilemmas that 'late-forming states' face as regimes within them cope with domestic and international pressure, the author illustrates several Middle East cases and presents a detailed analysis of state developments in Saudi Arabia and Iraq. He maintains that more than the domestic characteristics of individual states, state survival in the Middle East is also a function of the anarchic nature of the international (and by extension the regional) states-system. The first to raise the question on the survivability of the territorial states in the Middle East

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Author

Adham Saouli

Publisher

London ; New York: Routledge

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136517174

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Science