03202nam 22004931 450 991015487550332120190405105809.01-350-98826-X1-78672-141-41-78673-141-X10.5040/9781350988262(CKB)4340000000019066(MiAaPQ)EBC4753462(OCoLC)965197076(UtOrBLW)bpp09262950(EXLCZ)99434000000001906620190412d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierStatecraft in the Middle East foreign policy, domestic politics and security /Imad MansourFirst edition.London :I.B. Tauris,2016.1 online resource (289 pages)Library of international relationsCompliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily.1-78453-580-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.Library of international relations (Series)International relationsMiddle EastForeign relationsMiddle EastPolitics and government320.956Mansour Imad783141UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910154875503321Statecraft in the Middle East1739482UNINA