Statecraft in the Middle East - Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and Security (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	I.B. Tauris
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2016
Authors:	Imad Mansour
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-78453-580-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Promotions
LSN:	1-78453-580-X
Barcode:	9781784535803

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