From Resilience to Revolution - How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East

Informationen zum Autor Sean L. Yom Klappentext Yom argues that the durability of Middle Eastern regimes stems from their geopolitical origins. Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that characterize the modern Middle East. A key text for foreign policy scholars, From Resilience to Revolution shows how outside interference can corrupt the most basic choices of governance: who to reward, who to punish, who to compensate, and who to manipulate. Zusammenfassung Yom argues that the durability of Middle Eastern regimes stems from their geopolitical origins. Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran! Jordan! and Kuwait! Yom examines the foreign interventions! coalitional choices! and state outcomes that characterize the modern Middle East. A key text for foreign policy scholars! From Resilience to Revolution shows how outside interference can corrupt the most basic choices of governance: who to reward! who to punish! who to compensate! and who to manipulate. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Note on Transliteration and Interviews Acknowledgments 1. The Argument and the Cases 2. Coalitions, State-Building, and Geopolitical Mediation 3. Conflict and Compromise in Kuwait 4. Inclusion and Stability in a Populist Autocracy 5. Cliency and Coercion in Iran 6. Exclusionary Politics and the Revolutionary End 7. A Conflict Interrupted in Jordan 8. Recurrent Tensions and Tenuous Survival Under Hashemite Rule 9. The Geopolitical Origins of Durable Political Order Notes Bibliography Index

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"A valuable work that makes a strong contribution to the study of Middle Eastern politics." Michael Herb, Georgia State University

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• Authors: Sean Yom, Sean L. Yom, Yom Sean L.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2015
• EAN: 9780231175647
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17564-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics; Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; HISTORY / Middle East / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, 21st Century, Middle East, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Politics and government, Middle Eastern history