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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