Community, Identity and the State: Comparing Africa, Eurasia, Latin America and the Middle East - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071465664X ISBN 13: 9780714656649

Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

The studies in this volume originated from an international conference on 'Community, Identity and the State' held at Tel Aviv University in 2001. The first two chapters examine whether modernisation, Westernisation and democratisation are identical, and whether democracy is connected to a certain, specific type of social structure. The third examines similarities in the political, economic and social development of 'Second World' and 'Third World' countries, while the fourth discusses the relationship between criminal and 'normal' structures in Russian society. Subsequent chapters focus on nationalism, using case studies from Argentina, Syria and Morocco, on the 'Ulama and national movements in the Middle East, on Islamic nationalism in Iran and on the discourse between pan-Africanism and Islam. The final two chapters examine the effects on tribal politics of the exploitation of oil in Abu Dhabi, and the problems of the Kurds in northern Iraq.

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About the Author

Moshe Gammer is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University. He is also the author of Muslim Resistance to the Tsar: Shamil and the Conquest of Chechnia and Daghestan and editor of The Caspian: A Re-emerging Region and The Caucasus: Post-Soviet Conflict.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 071465664X
• ISBN 13: 9780714656649
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204
• Editor: Gammer Moshe