Simon Bromley

Rethinking Middle East Politics

State Formation and Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers a range of debates on the character of political and socio-economic change in the Middle East, focusing on the linked processes of state formation and capitalist development. The author seeks to reformulate the central questions involved in the study of state formation: he develops a comparative framework based on an examination of key developmental processes in Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Iran, and he offers a range of substantive theses on the place of democracy and Islam in the region. Moreover, he argues that, by focusing on the historical character of surplus appropriation, by detailing the specific social relations which have governed these processes, and by considering their patterns of reproduction and transformation, we can explain a very large part of what appears to be significant about the transformation of the modern Middle East. In particular, we can better and more fully explain the key features of the region than can those accounts that have stressed its cultural or institutional peculiarities. Rethinking Middle East Politics is concerned to formulate a new way of analysing politics in the Middle East, developing a perspective which has major implications for rethinking Third World politics more generally and for the social and political theory of modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780745609089
• ISBN-10: 0745609082
• Artikelnr.: 23526707

Autorenporträt

Simon Bromley is Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Leeds. He is also co-author of Thatcherism (Polity, 1988) and author of American Hegemony and World Oil (Polity, 1990).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Introduction.
1. Understanding the Middle East.
2. From Tributary Empires to States-System.
3. Rethinking Middle East Politics.
4. Comparative State Formation in the Middle East.
5. Patterns of Social Development in the Middle East.
Conclusions.
Appendix.
Bibliography.
Index.