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From Resilience to Revolution : How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East.

As colonial rule dissolved in the 1930s and 1950s, Middle Eastern autocrats constructed new political states to solidify their reigns, with varying results. Some proved durable despite economic challenges and devastating wars, such as the Sabah regime of Kuwait, which faced little opposition and enj...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yom, Sean L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Colección:Columbia studies in Middle East politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Table of Contents ; A Note on Transliteration and Interviews; Acknowledgments; 1. The Argument and the Cases; 2. Coalitions, State-Building, and Geopolitical Mediation; 3. Conflict and Compromise in Kuwait; 4. Inclusion and Stability in a Populist Autocracy; 5. Cliency and Coercion in Iran; 6. Exclusionary Politics and the Revolutionary End; 7. A Conflict Interrupted in Jordan; 8. Recurrent Tensions and Tenuous Survival Under Hashemite Rule; 9. The Geopolitical Origins of Durable Political Order; Notes; Bibliography; Index.