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Author : Youssef M. Choueiri
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Lebanon
ISBN : 0312095864
Essays examine the social, economic, and political development of the two nations since the end of the Ottoman Empire
Author : Andrew Delatolla
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030576905
This book argues that the modern state, from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period, has consistently been used as a means to measure civilizational engagement and attainment. This volume historicizes this dynamic, examining how it impacted state-making in Lebanon and Syria. By putting social, political, and economic pressure on the Ottoman Empire to replicate the modern state in Europe, the book examines processes of racialization, nationalist development, continued imperial expansion, and resistance that became embedded in the state as it was assembled. By historicizing post-imperial and post-colonial state formation in Lebanon and Syria, it is possible to engage in a conceptual separation from the modern state, abandoning the ongoing reproduction of the state as a standard, or benchmark, of civilization and progress.
Author : Abdalhadi M. Alijla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1838605347
Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Between Social Capital to Trust: Institutions, History and Cultures -- Chapter 3: Broken windows: trust in divided societies -- Chapter 4: Trust Beyond MENA: Does Institutions Matter? -- Chapter 5: The Failure: Institutions, Corruption and Trust -- Chapter 6: Lebanon Gone Wrong: Inequality and Trust in Lebanon -- Chapter 7: Creating Hybrid society: Trust in Palestine -- Chapter 8: Doomed After, Doomed Before Trust in Syria -- Chapter 9: Refugees in Divided Societies: Syrian in Lebanon -- Chapter 10: The Missing Virtue -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Appendices.
Author : Richard T. Antoun,Donald Quataert
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791495070
This book provides a multi-disciplinary understanding of the processes of change in contemporary Syria as well as its historical, social, and cultural underpinnings. A number of distinguished anthropologists, historians, political scientists, and literateurs examine key issues such as the changing Syrian family, political factionalism, the sedentarization of nomads, bureaucratic corruption, rural-urban migration, the development of the Ba'th Party, Syria's political isolation, religious resurgence, and the continued importance of sects in Syrian life. This book strikes a balance between examining the consequences of Syria's geographical and strategic position in international politics and the implications of its internal and highly complex ethnic and class structure and culture. It argues that the religious culture of Syria is as important as the leadership of Asad and, more generally, that an understanding of Syrian politics must be matched by an understanding of Syrian society and culture.
Author : Youssef Chaitani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857715838
The complex relationship between Syria and Lebanon is the political fulcrum of the Middle East, and has dominated headlines since the withdrawal of French colonial forces from the Levant in 1943. One of the great paradoxes of this relationship is how two such very different political systems emerged in what many Syrian and Lebanese people see as one society. At the time of independence, it was assumed that only the divide-and-rule strategies of foreign powers kept the Arab peoples artificially separated. In this major new book, Youssef Chaitani examines how, despite the prevalence of Arab nationalism and the regression of imperial interference, Syria and Lebanon became more divided, rather than more integrated in the post-independence period. Drawing on untapped sources from the archives of Western foreign offices and the local press, Chaitani uncovers the strategies and motivations of both countries' elites during this period, and produces conclusions which have major implications for our understanding of Arab nationalism, as well as the complexities of the Syrian-Lebanese relationship.
Author : John F. Devlin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003807674
First Published in 1983, Syria: Modern State in an Ancient Land presents a concise profile of Syria in which the author depicts the factors that shaped modern Syria, introducing its land, people, and culture and explaining how it moved from being the coup - prone cockpit of inter-Arab politics to the relative stability in the 1980s. He discusses how its political system functions, the development of its moderate socialist economy, the nation's external affairs (particularly within the Middle East), and issues for the future-the last of particular interest because Syria is in a process of change in its politics, society, and international relationships. Throughout he provides a framework within which to understand and assess the developments in Syria in the 1980s. This is a must read for students of Middle East studies and Middle East history.
Author : Thomas Philipp,Christoph Schumann
Publisher : Ergon Verlag
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060804732
Articles presented at the third conference on Bilad al-Sham, held in Erlangen, Germany.
Author : Leila Tarazi Fawaz,Fida Nasrallah,Nadim Shehadi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Lebanon
ISBN : UOM:39015029533844
Author : Youssef M. Choueiri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032543483
This text traces the social and political development of Syria and Lebanon from the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. Written by a number of specialists and scholars, it offers a comparative study by means of concentration on major turning-points in the modern history of both countries. The book opens with the foundation of the first modern Arab government in 1919 and ends with an analysis of the Syrian-Lebanese co-operation treaty. Based on new research data and offering original approaches, the book should be a useful addition to literature on both Lebanon and Syria.
Author : Nicola Migliorino
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450579
For almost nine decades, since their mass-resettlement to the Levant in the wake of the Genocide and First World War, the Armenian communities of Lebanon and Syria appear to have successfully maintained a distinct identity as an ethno-culturally diverse group, in spite of representing a small non-Arab and Christian minority within a very different, mostly Arab and Muslim environment. The author shows that, while in Lebanon the state has facilitated the development of an extensive and effective system of Armenian ethno-cultural preservation, in Syria the emergence of centralizing, authoritarian regimes in the 1950s and 1960s has severely damaged the autonomy and cultural diversity of the Armenian community. Since 1970, the coming to power of the Asad family has contributed to a partial recovery of Armenian ethno-cultural diversity, as the community seems to have developed some form of tacit arrangement with the regime. In Lebanon, on the other hand, the Armenian community suffered the consequences of the recurrent breakdown of the consociational arrangement that regulates public life. In both cases the survival of Armenian cultural distinctiveness seems to be connected, rather incidentally, with the continuing ‘search for legitimacy’ of the state.
Author : Rosita Di Peri,Daniel Meier
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1352000040
This book provides an intimate picture of Lebanon, exploring the impacts of the Arab uprisings of 2011 which are deeply affecting Lebanese politics and society. The book examines Lebanon’s current issues and its deep sectarian divisions, as well as the ways in which it still seems able to find some adaptation paths to face the many challenges left by its regional sectarian and political polarization. Authors delve into border regions, Syrian refugees, the welfare state, the Lebanese Army, popular mobilisations in 2011 and the two main communities, the Sunnis and the Shia. Built on various fieldwork researches, the volume explores each of the topics through the lenses of identification building processes, the re-ordering of social and/or political relations, and the nationhood symbols and meanings.
Author : Alexander Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3668970866
Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 1,7, University of Essex, language: English, abstract: The political system in Lebanon remained paralyzed in 2015, leaving the presidency vacant since the expiration of the last term in May 2014, while extending the National Assembly's term twice since 2013. Furthermore, due to the still ongoing civil war in Syria and the immediate threat of the so-called Islamic State, the country is facing a wave of more than one million registered Syrian refugees as well as a direct involvement in the conflict by the Islamist militant group and political party Hezbollah. The case of the Palestinian refugees permanently living in Lebanon for decades is a still long-lasting issue for the Lebanese society and is in need of setting a new concept for a successful integration of the Palestinians into the political framework of the country. The object of this paper is to work out the theoretical background of Lebanon's "partly free" political system, giving a review on the country's history from the period of the Ottoman Empire until now in the second part, then analyzing in the main part the various factors, which play an important role in the democratization process as well as apply the previously specified theories and approaches to the actual challenges the country is still facing in its political life. In addition to that, several reformation proposals will be critically described and interpreted in order to work out the quintessence of the challenges Lebanon has to cope with in its near future.
Author : Robert G. Rabil
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498535137
This book examines the unfolding of the Syrian refugee crisis in relation to the spillover of the Syrian civil war in Lebanon and against the background of Lebanon–Syria relations and Lebanon’s socio-political, cultural, legal, and economic conditions. It surveys Lebanon’s response plans to the refugee crisis as part of the development of the international response plans to address the protection and needs of the Syrian refugees and Palestinian refugees from Syria, as well as the impacted host communities and institutions. At the same time, this book emphasizes the dramatic shift in popular and institutional attitudes towards the refugees as a response to and as a growth of the sheer magnitude of the refugee crisis, which made Lebanon the only country in modern history with the highest per capita concentration of refugees in the world. By examining these attitudes against the background of achievements and failures of the response plans, the impact of the crisis on state institutions on the local and national levels, and the collective consciousness of a nation barely surviving the scars of its civil war, this book not only underscores the deepening tragedy of Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, but also the consequential tragedy of many Lebanese, who have been forced into poverty and whose livelihoods have been affected by insecurity and the almost complete collapse of social services. As a result, the tragedy of the Syrian refugee crisis has become an international crisis affecting vulnerable persons across nationalities, and, unless it is addressed diplomatically and its response plans sufficiently funded, the tragedy will only deepen across continents.
Author : Fouad Ilias
Publisher : Graduate Institute Publications
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782940415281
This work aims to shed light on the evolution of the Lebanese political arena after the withdrawal of Syrian troops in April 2005 by analyzing the perceptions of Hizballah among members of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), as the alliance between the two groups enters its fourth year. Hizballah is generally well portrayed among FPM members although the two constituencies have very few elements in common. Different backgrounds, confessions, political views and cultural traits distinguish them.
Author : Thomas Pierret
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139620062
While Syria has been dominated since the 1960s by a determinedly secular regime, the 2011 uprising has raised many questions about the role of Islam in the country's politics. This book demonstrates that with the eradication of the Muslim Brothers after the failed insurrection of 1982, Sunni men of religion became the only voice of the Islamic trend in the country. Through educational programs, charitable foundations and their deft handling of tribal and merchant networks, they took advantage of popular disaffection with secular ideologies to increase their influence over society. In recent years, with the Islamic resurgence, the Alawi-dominated Ba'thist regime was compelled to bring the clergy into the political fold. This relationship was exposed in 2011 by the division of the Sunni clergy between regime supporters, bystanders and opponents. This book affords a new perspective on Syrian society as it stands at the crossroads of political and social fragmentation.