Statecraft in the Middle East : foreign policy, domestic politics and security / / Imad Mansour

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154875503321
• Autore: Mansour Imad
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-350-98826-X; 1-78672-141-4; 1-78673-141-X
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 pages)
• Collana: Library of international relations
• Disciplina: 320.956
• Soggetti: Middle East Foreign relations; Middle East Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
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• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A framework for analysing statecraft -- Statecraft in Egypt -- Statecraft in Israel -- Statecraft in Syria -- Statecraft in Turkey -- Statecraft in Saudi Arabia -- Statecraft in Iran -- Concluding remarks: The Arab Spring, theoretical observations on statecraft and future research -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: "What role do ideas play in state-building and state activity? This book argues that government policies in both foreign relations and domestic politics must always be situated within a broader ideational and societal context. Imad Mansour analyses how governments in the contemporary Middle East have governed internally and acted externally based on societal narratives, which bring together a variety of ideas about a society's history and place in the world. He argues that there is a dominant societal narrative that acts as a primary building block of statecraft, where statecraft is understood as an ongoing set of local, regional and global state-building processes. Mansour investigates the ways in which statecraft in the Middle East has been guided by narratives through a close historical reading and comparative discussion 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 early twenty-first century. His book demonstrates the analytical power of narratives in understanding statecraft and explains why governments' decisions need to be understood in complex ways."--Bloomsbury Publishing.