Dialogues in Arab Politics - Negotiations in Regional Order

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-231-10918-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

For decades, Arab states and societies have been involved in an ongoing conflict over the goals and norms of Arabism. In this comprehensive study, Michael Barnett explores the relationships between Arab identity, the meaning of Arabism, and desired regional order in the Middle East from 1920 to the present, focusing on Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. Barnett examines the state system in four distinct time frames: the mandate period to the establishment of the League of Arab States in 1945; 1945 through the Baghdad Pact of 1955; the Suez War through the 1967 war; and 1967 through the Gulf War. Within each of these time frames, the Arab states' relationship to unification, the West, and confrontation with Zionism are addressed.

Does Arab unity depend on excluding Western influences? Can an Arab state be at once Islamic and democratic? Why can't the Arab states agree on a common government? Barnett argues that the Arab states' symbolic and strategic interactions were responsible for the alterations in the norms of Arabism, and ultimately, the fragamentation that currently defines the region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnett, Michael N.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Narrative of Arab PoliticsDialogues and Regional OrderWhich Dialogues Among Which Arab States?Organization of the Book2. The Game of Arab PoliticsThe Structure of Arab PoliticsSymbolic ExchangesThe Changing Game of Arab Politics3. The Creation of "Arab" Polticis, 1920-1945Arab NationalismArab Nationalism and IndependenceArab Nationalism and PalestineArab Nationalism and Unification4. Securing Arabaism, 1945-1955Palestine and IsraelArab Nationalism and SovereigntyArab Nationalism and the West5. The Ascent and Descent of Arabism, 1956-1967Suez, Arabism and the WestArabism and the Rise and Decline of UnificiationThe Debate about Israel6. Sovereignty and Statism, 1967-1990Khartoum and the Consecration of SovereigntyThe War of Ramadan, the Peace Process, and Constricted ArabismFragmentation in Arab Politics7. The End of the Arab States System?Arab Politics Since the Gulf WarThe Gulf WarThe Reorganization of Arab-Israeli PoliticsThe Changing Security OrderThe Future Arab Order8. The Making and Unmaking of Arab PoliticsThe Pattern of Strategic InteractionA Narrative of Arab Politics

Über Autor(innen)

Michael N. Barnett is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.