Shaul Mishal, Ori Goldberg

Understanding Shiite Leadership

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents Shiite leaderships as pragmatic entities with the potential to form fruitful relationships with the non-Shiite world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9781107632677
• ISBN-10: 1107632676
• Artikelnr.: 41750790

Autorenporträt

Shaul Mishal is a Professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and at the School of Government, IDC Herzlia, and a Visiting Professor at Yale University, Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard, and Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has authored and co-authored several books on Palestinian issues including West Bank/East Bank, The PLO under Arafat, Speaking Stones with R. Aharoni, The Palestinian Hamas with A. Sela, and Investment in Peace with R. Kuperman and D. Boas. Mishal has authored numerous articles, which have appeared in many leading journals. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Leadership as interpretation
2. The quest for authority
3. Void and spaces
4. Khomeini's middle ground
5. Forming the middle ground: intra-Shiite issues
6. Seeking the middle ground: extra-Shiite issues
7. The struggle for the middle ground: the 2009 presidential elections
8. Middle ground as resistance: Lebanese Hizballah
9. HB and the temperate city
Epilogue: Shiite leadership and the emergence of the middle ground regime.