Shiism and Politics in the Middle East

Informationen zum Autor Laurence Louer is Research Fellow at CERI/SciencesPo in Paris. She has served as a permanent consultant for the Policy Planning Department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (CAP ) since 2004 and as co-editor-in-chief of Critique internationale since 2006. Her research focuses on the politics of identity and ethnicity in the Middle East. She is the author of two other Hurst titles: Transnational Shia Politics: Political and Religious Networks in the Gulf (2008) and To Be An Arab In Israel (2007). Klappentext There exists a tendency to explain away much of Shiite politics in the Middle East as inextricably linked to Iranian foreign policy. Laurence Louer challenges this view, arguing that, in the end, local political imperatives have been the crucial factor determining the direction of Shiite states in the Middle East.

Product details

• Authors: Laurence Louer, Louer Laurence
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2012
• EAN: 9780199327751
• ISBN: 978-0-19-932775-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Comparative Politics and Inter; Comparative Politics and Inter; Comparative Politics and International Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, HISTORY / Middle East / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Middle East, RELIGION / Islam / Shi'a, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern history, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Islamic, Islamic groups: Shi’ah, Shi’ite