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Ethnicity, Pluralism, and the State in the Middle East / Itamar Rabinovich, Milton J. Esman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities--Middle East--Congresses.
- Minorities.
- Middle East Studies.
- Middle East--Ethnic relations--Congresses.
- Middle East.
- Middle East--Politics and government--Congresses.
- Local Subjects:
- Middle East Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 p.) : 6 tables, 1 map
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A timely and innovative discussion of the role that ethnicity plays in contemporary Middle Eastern affairs, Ethnicity, Pluralism, and the State in the Middle East is the first systematic exploration of this important dimension in the social life, statecraft, politics, and international relations in the region.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Nationalism and Ethnicity
- 1. The Study of Ethnic Politics in the Middle East / Esman, Milton J. / Rabinovich, Itamar
- 2. Ethnicity, Majority, and Minority in the Middle East / Kedourie, Elie
- Part II. Legacies of the Past
- 3. The Ottoman Ethnic and Confessional Legacy in the Middle East / Karpat, Kemal
- 4. Non-Muslims in Muslim Society: A Preliminary Consideration of the Problem on the Basis of Recent Published Works by Muslim Authors / Vatikiotis, P. J.
- 5. Ethnopolitics and the Middle Eastern State / Ben-Dor, Gabriel
- Part III. The Israeli Scene and the Palestinians
- 6. The Different Levels of Palestinian Ethnicity / Haidar, Aziz
- 7. Jews and Arabs in the Israeli Communist Party / Rekhess, Elie
- 8. Political Ethnicity as a Socially Constructed Reality: The Case of Jews in Israel / Herzog, Hanna
- Part IV. The Syrian-Lebanese Complex
- 9. Arab Political Parties: Ideology and Ethnicity / Rabinovich, Itamar
- 10. Homo Oeconomicus-Homo Communitaris: Crosscutting Loyalties in a Deeply Divided Society: The Case of Trade Unions in Lebanon / Hanf, Theodor
- 11. The Druze in and between Syria, Lebanon, and Israel / Firro, Kais
- PART V. THE IRANIAN SCENE
- 12. Ethnicity and the Iranian Peasantry / Kazemi, Farhad
- 13. Khomeini's Policy toward Ethnic and Religious Minorities / Menashri, David
- Part VI. Iraq and the Sudan
- 14. The Kurdish Question in the 1980s / MacDonald, Charles G.
- 15. The Ethnic Factor in Sudanese Politics: South vs. North / Shaked, Haim / Ronen, Yehudit
- PART VII. CONCLUSION
- 16. Ethnic Politics: How Unique Is the Middle East? / Esman, Milton J.
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501745751
- 1501745751
- OCLC:
- 1129216281
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