Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East

Name: Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East
Brand: Oxford University Press(UK)
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By Laura Robson

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The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, an ever more highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications, a Lebanon teetering on the edge of collapse from the pressures of its huge numbers of refugees and its sect-bound political system, and the rise of a wide variety of Islamist paramilitary organizations seeking to operate outside all these states. The region's emergence as a 'zone of violence', characterized by a viciously dystopian politics of identity, is a relatively recent phenomenon, developing only over the past century; but despite these shallow historical roots, the mass violence and dispossession now characterizing Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Iraq have emerged as some of the twenty-first century's most intractable problems. In this study, Laura Robson uses a framework of mass violence - encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization - to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and to illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel.

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Number of Pages:: 246
Release Date:: 2020-11-09
Publication Date:: 2020-11-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 019882503X
ISBN13:: 9780198825036
Weight:: 537 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 18 cm

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