Sectarianization : mapping the new politics of the Middle East / Nader Hashemi, Danny Postel (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hashemi, Nader, 1966- editor.

Postel, Danny, editor.

Oxford Academic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--Politics and government--21st century.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 384 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction : the sectarianization thesis / Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel.

part 1. Sectarianization in historical, geopolitical and theoretical perspective. The problem of sectarianism in the Middle East in an age of Western hegemony / Ussama Makdisi

The sectarianization of geopolitics in the Middle East / Bassel F. Salloukh

The Arab region at a tipping point : why sectarianism fails to explain the turmoil / Yezid Sayigh

A narrative identity approach to Islamic sectarianism / Adam Gaiser.

part 2. How sectarianization works : case studies. International politics, domestic imperatives, and identity mobilization : sectarianism in Pakistan, 1979-1998 / Vali Nasr

Sectarian relations before "sectarianization" in pre-2003 Iraq / Fanar Haddad

The shattered nation : the sectarianization of the Syrian conflict / Paulo Gabriel Hilu Pinto

Sectarianism as counter-revolution : Saudi responses to the Arab Spring / Madawi Al-Rasheed

Strategic depth, counterinsurgency, and the logic of sectarianization : the Islamic Republic of Iran's security doctrine and its regional implications / Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi

Sectarianization, Islamist republicanism, and international misrecognition in Yemen / Stacey Philbrick Yadav

Sectarianization as securitization : identity politics and counter-revolution in Bahrain / Toby Matthiesen

The architecture of sectarianizatiaon in Lebanon / Bassel F. Salloukh

Sectarianism, authoritarianism, and opposition in Kuwait / Madeleine Wells

Conclusion : peacebuilding in sectarianized conflicts : findings and implications for theory and practice / Timothy D. Sisk.

Notes:

"This book is a product of the collective efforts of the faculty and staff at the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies."--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-359) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9780190686536 (electronic bk.)

0190686537 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

90102815836

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