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

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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9781784535803 ((hardcover))
    • 178453580X ((hardcover))
    • 178673141X
    • 9781786731418
    • 1786721414
    • 9781786721419
    OCLC
    960720522
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