Jamie Allinson

Struggle for the State in Jordan

The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East

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Why do the states of the Arab world seem so unstable? Why do alliances between them and with outside powers change? Jamie Allinson argues that the answer lies in the expansion of global capitalism in the Middle East. Drawing out the unexpected way in which Jordan's Bedouin tribes became allied to the British Empire in the twentieth century, and the legacy of this for the international politics of the Middle East, he challenges the existing views of the region. Using the example of Jordan, this book traces the social bases of the struggles that produced the country's foreign relations in the latter half of the twentieth century to the reforms… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-85772-832-6
EAN: 9780857728326
Produktnummer: 22564924
Verlag: I.B.Tauris
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'213 KB

Über den Autor

Jamie Allinson is Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster. He holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from The University of Edinburgh.