The Land Beyond the Border State Formation and Territorial Expansion in Syria, Morocco, and Israel.

Uses an innovative theoretical framework to comparatively explore the dynamics of state expansion and contraction in Syria (1976-2005), Morocco (since 1975), and Israel (since 1967).

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Becke, Johannes
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.
Colección:SUNY Series in Comparative Politics Ser.
Temas:
Boundaries > Case studies.
Irredentism > Case studies.
Postcolonialism.
Comparative government.
Frontières > Études de cas.
Irrédentisme > Études de cas.
Postcolonialisme.
postcolonialism.
Boundaries
Comparative government
Irredentism
Postcolonialism
Territorial expansion
Syria > Territorial expansion.
Morocco > Territorial expansion.
Israel > Territorial expansion.
Israel
Morocco
Syria
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Paradox of Postcolonial State Expansions
  • From Greater Indonesia to Greater Israel
  • Comparison and Exceptionalism in the Research Literature
  • Chapter 1 A Theory of Postcolonial State Expansions
  • A Causal Pathway of Postcolonial State Expansions
  • Varieties of State Expansion
  • Varieties of State Contraction
  • Taxonomies of Rule and Resistance
  • A Note on Case Selection
  • Contribution to the Literature
  • Chapter 2 The Late Colonial State in the Middle East
  • The Legacy of Self-Destruct Colonialism in the Maghreb and the Levant
  • The French Mandate in Syria and Lebanon
  • The Franco-Spanish Protectorate in Morocco
  • The British Mandate in Palestine
  • Jews, Berbers, Alawites: The Colonial Minority Policy
  • Create Two, Three, Many Lebanons
  • The Berbers, the Sultan, and "Old Morocco"
  • The Other Natives: British Ambivalence toward Zionism
  • From State Evasion to State Formation
  • The Alawite State and the Alawite Rise to Power
  • The Rif Republic: A Home for All Berbers?
  • The Zionist Project as the Last Minority State
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 After Empire: Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial State Formation
  • Essentially Contested Statehood: Challenges to State Legitimacy
  • The Case Against Syria
  • Alternatives to Alawism
  • One State, Two States, No State
  • Nonsovereign Statehood: Challenges to Stateness
  • The Struggle for Syria
  • Defending Morocco in the Rif
  • Hunting Season in Palestine
  • Irredentist Nation Building: The Land beyond the Border
  • Greater Syria: From Cyprus to the Euphrates
  • Greater Morocco: Down to the Senegal River
  • Greater Israel: On Both Banks of the Jordan River
  • Militarized State Building: Putting the State on the Map
  • The Syrian Nation-in-Arms
  • The Royal Armed Forces and the Palace
  • The Origins of Israeli Militarism
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 Varieties of State Expansion
  • Institutional Lock-In: The Logic of Predatory State Consolidation
  • Syria: One Nation in Two States
  • Morocco: The Saharan Consensus
  • Israel: The Return to the Sources
  • Syrianization, Moroccanization, and Judaization
  • Patronization: The Rise of the Syrian Godfather
  • Incorporation: Morocco's Saharan Provinces
  • Exclavization: Jewish Settlements and the Dynamics of Miniaturization
  • A New Type of State? Comparing First-Wave and Second-Wave State Expansions
  • From the Druze Mountain to Mount Lebanon
  • From the Rif to the Sahara
  • From the Galilee to the Judean Mountains
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 Resistance and Institutional Change
  • Varieties of Resistance
  • Lebanese Resistance and Maronite Counteridentities
  • The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as a Counterinstitution
  • Counterforce and Counternarratives in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
  • Institutional Change and Institutional Inertia

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