Rethinking Hizballah : legitimacy, authority, violence / Samer N. Abboud and Benjamin J. Muller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abboud, Samer Nassif.

Contributor:

Muller, Benjamin J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hizballah (Lebanon).

Political violence.

Lebanon--Politics and government--1990-.

Lebanon.

Politics and government.

Political violence--Lebanon.

Physical Description:

ix, 152 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]

Summary:

International Relations scholarship posits that legitimacy, authority and violence are attributes of states. However, groups like Hizballah clearly challenge this framing of global politics through its continued ability to exercise violence in the regional arena. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of state-society relations in Lebanon, this book presents a lucid examination of the socio-political conditions that gave rise to the Lebanese movement Hizballah from 1982 until the present.

Framing and analyzing Hizballah through the perspective of the "resistance society"; and articulation of identity politics that informs the violent and non-violent political strategies of the movement, Abboud and Muller demonstrate how Hizballah poses a challenge to the Lebanese state through its acquisition and exercise of private authority, and the implications this has for other Lebanese political actors.

An essential insight into the complexities of the workings of Hizballah, this book broadens our understanding of how legitimacy, authority and violence can be acquired and exercised outside the structure of the sovereign nation-state. An invaluable resource for scholars working in the fields of Critical Comparative Politics and International Relations. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Lebanon's sectarian system

Legitimacy, authority and resistance

Violence and legitimacy in the Lebanese context, 1985-2010

Sovereignty, international relations and the curious case of Hizballah

The special tribunal for Lebanon

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780754679660

0754679667

9780754699224

0754699226

OCLC:

795353875