Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
Statecraft in the Middle East : foreign policy, domestic politics and security / Imad Mansour.
Author
Mansour, Imad
[Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
©2016
Description
282 pages ; 23 cm
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
DS63.1 .M325 2016
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Nation-building
—
Middle East
[Browse]
Middle East
—
Foreign relations
[Browse]
Middle East
—
Politics and government
[Browse]
Series
Library of international relations (Series) ; 80.
[More in this series]
Library of international relations ; 80
Summary note
"What role do ideas play in state-building and state behaviour? This book argues that government policies in both foreign relations and domestic politics must always be situated within a broader ideological and societal context. Imad Mansour analyses how governments in the contemporary Middle East have governed internally and acted externally based on societal narratives, narratives which bring together a variety of ideas about a society's history and place in the world. He argues that there is a dominant societal narrative that acts as a primary building block of statecraft, where statecraft is understood as an ongoing set of local, regional and global state-building processes. Mansour investigates the ways in which statecraft in the Middle East has been guided by narratives through a close historical reading and comparative discussion of the political behaviors of six states-Egypt, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran-in the second half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first century. His book demonstrates the analytical purchase of narratives in understanding statecraft and explains why governing governments' decisions need to be understood in complex ways."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-277) and index.
Contents
1. A framework for analysing statecraft
2. Statecraft in Egypt
3. Statecraft in Israel
4. Statecraft in Syria
5. Statecraft in Turkey
6. Statecraft in Saudi Arabia
7. Statecraft in Iran
8. Concluding remarks.
Show 5 more Contents items
ISBN
9781784535803 ((hardcover))
178453580X ((hardcover))
178673141X
9781786731418
1786721414
9781786721419
OCLC
960720522
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information