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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Becke, Johannes.

Series:

SUNY Series in Comparative Politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boundaries--Case studies.

Boundaries.

Irredentism--Case studies.

Irredentism.

Postcolonialism.

Comparative government.

Syria--Territorial expansion.

Syria.

Morocco--Territorial expansion.

Morocco.

Israel--Territorial expansion.

Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.

Summary:

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).

Contents:

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

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

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

Lebanon after 1989: From Patronization to Satellization

Western Sahara after 1991: Entrenched Incorporation

The Occupied Territories after 1993: Integrating Exclavization and Satellization

Chapter 6 State Expansions and State Contractions after the End of the Cold War

Patterns of Territorial Entrenchment

Syria's Rule over Lebanon After the Ta'if Agreement (1989)

Morocco's Rule over Western Sahara after the Settlement Plan (1991)

Israel's Rule over the Occupied Territories after the Oslo Accords (1993)

Shifting Dynamics of Countermobilization

Lebanese Resistance against Syrian Satellization

Sahrawi Resistance against Moroccan Incorporation

Palestinian Resistance against Israeli Exclavization

Desatellization: Syria's Withdrawal from Lebanon.

Scenarios of Satellization in Western Sahara

Depatronization in Southern Lebanon, Deexclavization in Gaza

Chapter 7 Varieties of Expansionism in Global Comparison

State Expansions after World War II

State Contractions after World War II

Exclaves and Satellite States: Comparing Cyprus, East Timor, and Crimea

From Exclavization to Deexclavization: Turkish Rule over Northern Cyprus (since 1974)

From Incorporation to Disincorporation: Indonesia's Capture of East Timor (1975-1999)

Staging Incorporation as Reincorporation: Russia's Capture of Crimea (2014)

Irredentism after Empire

Varieties of Expansionism

Countermobilization and State Contraction

In-Case Variety and Mixed Cases

Studying Israel as a Middle Eastern Society

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781438482248

1438482248

OCLC:

1244622156