Instability in the Middle East : Structural Changes and Uneven Modernisation 1950-2015.

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Černý, Karel
Otros Autores: Jones, Phill
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Prague : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, 2017.
Temas:
Political stability > Middle East.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Political stability
Middle East
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: CHRONIC INSTABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
  • Modernisation as the cause of instability in the Middle East â#x80;#x93; too slow or too fast?
  • Creating an alternative theoretical model: uneven modernisation and its context
  • A new theoretical model of modernisation in the Middle East
  • Four possible macro comparisons of the Middle Eastern pattern of modernisation
  • Operationalisation of the model of uneven modernisation and sources of empirical data
  • From the macro-level of structures to the micro-level of actors and their actions: mechanisms of destabilisationMethodological, terminological and personal observations
  • POLITICAL MODERNISATION: WEAK AND AUTHORITARIAN STATES
  • Frozen political modernisation in an international comparison: the democratic deficit
  • Regional comparison: the democratic deficit of Middle Eastern regimes
  • The second dimension of political modernisation: a weak state and a governance deficit
  • The character of Middle East regimes and the character of political repertoires of contention
  • Political regimes and political repertoires: a weak authoritarian state, revolution and terrorism (1) The birth of political actors: mass political participation and rigid political systems
  • (2) The discrepancy between preferences and reality: the desire for democracy, prosperity and conservative morals
  • (3) The discrediting of unscrupulous dictators, the invention of tradition and the moralising drive of Islam
  • (5) The current conflict as a continuation of history
  • (6) The decline of secular doctrines: an ideological vacuum and Islam as an alternative
  • (7) The chronic crisis of the legitimacy of regimes: the career of Middle Eastern ideologies (8) The turn to religion: official Islam and the risky strategy of regimes
  • (9) Domesticated clerics and the decline of the traditional religious authorities
  • (10) Oil rent, the power pyramid and the socio-economic alienation of regimes
  • (11) The cultural alienation of westernised regimes: cultural decolonisation
  • (12) Clientelism and the alienation of the regime from the rest of the population
  • (13) Military clientele: co-opting of the army, polarisation of society
  • (14) Terrorism as the continuation of politics by other means ECONOMIC MODERNISATION: VOLATILE AND DISTORTED
  • Oil rent and distorted economic development: the Dutch disease
  • International comparison: the Middle East and other macroregions
  • Regional comparison of Middle Eastern countries: a two-speed region
  • Rapid economic development as a possible factor in political destabilisation
  • The modelâ#x80;#x99;s application to the post-colonial Arab world: oil rent versus neoliberal reforms
  • The international context: the food crisis and political destabilisation

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