War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East / edited by Steven Heydemann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East.

Heydemann, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society--Middle East.

War and society.

War--Economic aspects--Middle East.

War.

Middle East--History--20th century.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill this gap, War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the role of war preparation and war-making on the formation and transformation of states and societies in the contemporary Middle East. Their findings pose significant challenges to widely accepted assumptions and present new theoretical starting points for the study of war and the state in the contemporary developing world. Heydemann's collaborators include political scientists, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Their essays are both theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, covering topics such as the effects of World War II on state-market relations in Syria and Egypt, the role of war in the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the political economy of Lebanese militias, and the effects of the 1967 war on state and social institutions in Israel. The volume originated as a research planning project of the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the Social Science Research Council.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East

2. Guns, Gold, and Grain: War and Food Supply in the Making of Transjordan

3. The Climax and Crisis of the Colonial Welfare State in Syria and Lebanon during World War II

4. War, Keynesianism, and Colonialism: Explaining State-Market Relations in the Postwar Middle East Robert Vitalis and Steven Heydemann

5. Si Vis Stabilitatem, Para Bellum: State Building, National Security, and War Preparation in Syria

6. Changing Boundaries and Social Crisis Israel and the 1967 War

7. War as Leveler, War as Midwife Palestinian Political Institutions, Nationalism, and Society since 1948

8. War in the Social Memory of Egyptian Peasants

9. War as a Vehicle for the Rise and Demise of a State-Controlled Society: The Case of Ba'thist Iraq

10. The Political Economy of Civil War in Lebanon

11. The Cumulative Impact of Middle Eastern Wars

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

List of Contributors

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

"This volume is the result of a project on war and social change in the Middle East, directed and sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (335-356) and index.

ISBN:

9786612370700

9780520925229

052092522X

9781282370708

1282370707

9781597349871

1597349879

OCLC:

475927632