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The Struggle for the State in Jordan - The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East (Hardcover)
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The Struggle for the State in Jordan - The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East (Hardcover)
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Why do the states of the Arab world seem so unstable? Why do
alliances between them and with outside powers change? Jamie
Allinson argues that the answer lies in the expansion of global
capitalism in the Middle East. Drawing out the unexpected way in
which Jordan's Bedouin tribes became allied to the British Empire
in the twentieth century, and the legacy of this for the
international politics of the Middle East, he challenges the
existing views of the region. Using the example of Jordan, this
book traces the social bases of the struggles that produced the
country's foreign relations in the latter half of the twentieth
century to the reforms carried out under the Ottoman Empire and the
processes of land settlement and state formation experienced under
the British Mandate. By examining the attempts of Jordan to create
foreign alliances during a time of upheaval and instability in the
region, Allinson offers wider conclusions concerning the nature of
the interaction between state and society in the wider Middle East.
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