Community, Identity and the State: Comparing Africa, Eurasia, Latin America and the Middle East

by Gammer,Moshe; Gammer,Moshe

• ISBN13: 9780714656649
• ISBN10: 071465664X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The studies in this volume originated in an international conference on 'Community, Identity and the State' held at Tel Aviv University in 2001. The first two chapters examine whether modernization, Westernization and democratization are identical, and whether democracy is connected to a certain, specific type of social structure. The third examines similarities in the political, economic and social development of 'Second World' and 'Third World' countries, while the fourth discusses the relationship between criminal and 'normal' structures in Russian society. Subsequent chapters focus on nationalism, using case studies from Argentina, Syria and Morocco, on the 'Ulama and national movements in the Middle East, on Islamic nationalism in Iran and on the discourse between pan-Africanism and Islam. The final two chapters examine the effects on tribal politics of the exploitation of oil in Abu Dhabi, and the problem of the Kurds in northern Iraq.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	xi
Political Community and State Structures: Europe and Japan in Comparative View	1	(13)
Paul Georg Geiss
A Historical-anthropological Look at Some Sociopolitical Problems of Second and Third World Countries	14	(28)
Dmitri M. Bondarenko
Andrey V. Korotayev
Informal Structures of Power (Clans) and Administration Models in the Post-Soviet and Post-colonial Worlds	42	(27)
Vladimir (Ze'ev) Khanin
Criminal Social Structures and Normative Society in Russia Today: A Growing Interaction	69	(5)
Igor Sledzevsky
Peronist Nationalism and the Hispanic Heritage in Argentina	74	(15)
Raanan Rein
National and State Identity in Syria	89	(15)
Eyal Zisser
Traditional Monarchy and the Emergence of Modern Nationalism: The Moroccan Experience	104	(12)
Daniel Zisenwein
`Ulama and National Movements in the Middle East: Between Harmony and Dissent	116	(16)
Meir Hatina
Islamic Nationalism in Iran and Its Ideological, Military and Foreign-policy Aspects	132	(10)
Nugzar Ter-Organov
Communities of Ideas: Blyden, Senghor and the Evolution of the Discourse Between Pan-Africanism and Islam	142	(15)
Irit Back
Oil and Tribal Politics: Changing the Guard in Abu Dhabi	157	(14)
Uzi Rabbi
The Iraqi Kurds: Hour of Power?	171	(10)
Ofra Bengio
Index	181