Adham Saouli

Hezbollah (eBook, ePUB)

Socialisation and its Tragic Ironies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What drives Hezbollah's political behaviour? For three decades we believed that the impetus of establishing an Islamic state in Lebanon was its main goal. This book disagrees. Drawn from over fifteen years of research, it traces Hezbollah's political trajectory, or socialisation process, from its birth in 1982 to 2017. It identifies the religio-political identity and doctrine that inspire Hezbollah and the politico-strategic goals that motivate it. It argues that war-making with Israel has driven Hezbollah's socialisation in Lebanon and the region, transforming the Islamist movement from a loose organization into one of the world's most powerful and sophisticated armed political movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474419543
• Artikelnr.: 54832734

Autorenporträt

Adham Saouli is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews and Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Saouli is the author of the The Arab State: Dilemmas of Late Formation (Routledge, 2012), Hezbollah: Socialisation and its Tragic Ironies (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), editor of Unfulfilled Aspirations: Middle Power Politics in the Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2020), and co-editor of The War for Syria (Routledge, 2020). Saouli is now examining the historical origins of and contemporary political impact of the Arabo-Islamic concept of Fitna (sedition, civil war).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Glossary of Arabic Terms
Preface - Mask or Mirror?
Chapter 1. On Socialisation and its Discontents
Chapter 2. Being Hezbollah
Chapter 3. Hezbollah Makes War, War Makes Hezbollah
Chapter 4. War-making as International Socialisation
Chapter 5. Tragic Ironies
Conclusion