Structuring Conflict in the Arab World: Incumbents, Opponents, and Institutions - Softcover

Lust-Okar, Ellen

 
9780521032865: Structuring Conflict in the Arab World: Incumbents, Opponents, and Institutions
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ISBN 10: 0521032865 ISBN 13: 9780521032865
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book examines how ruling elites manage and manipulate their political opposition in the Middle East. In contrast to discussions of government-opposition relations that focus on how rulers either punish or co-opt opponents, this book focuses on the effect of institutional rules governing the opposition. It argues rules determining who is and is not allowed to participate in the formal political arena affect not only the relationships between opponents and the state, but also between various opposition groups. This affects the dynamics of opposition during prolonged economic crises. It also shapes the informal strategies that ruling elites use toward opponents. The argument is presented using a formal model of government-opposition relations. It is demonstrated in the cases of Egypt under Presidents Nasir, Sadat and Mubarek; Jordan under King Husayn; and Morocco under King Hasan II.

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About the Author

Ellen Lust-Okar is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. She received her M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She has studied and conducted research in Jordan, Morocco, Israel, Palestine and Syria, and her work examining the relationships between states and oppositions has appeared in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and other volumes. She is currently working on a second manuscript, Linking Domestic and International Conflict: The Case of Middle East Rivalries, with Paul Huth at the University of Michigan.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521032865
ISBN 13 
9780521032865
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
296

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