Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the
Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war
making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research
investigating the effects of war as a social and political process
in the Middle East. To fill this gap, War, Institutions, and Social
Change in the Middle East brings together an international and
interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the role of war
preparation and war making on the formation and transformation of
states and societies in the contemporary Middle East. Their
findings pose significant challenges to widely accepted theoretical
assumptions about the relationship between war making and state
formation based on the historical experience of early modern
Europe, and present new theoretical starting points for the study
of war and the state in the contemporary developing world.
Heydemann's collaborators include political scientists,
historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from the Middle East,
Europe, and the United States. Their essays are both theoretically
sophisticated and empirically rich, covering topics such as the
effects of World War II on state-market relations in Syria and
Egypt, the role of war in the rise of the Palestine Liberation
Organization, the political economy of Lebanese militias, the
effects of the 1967 war on state and social institutions in Israel,
and the role of militarization as a strategy of governance in Syria
and Iraq. The volume originated as a research planning project of
the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the Social
Science Research Council.
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