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1 online resource (304 pages). |
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text file |
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SUNY Series in Comparative Politics Ser.
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SUNY Series in Comparative Politics Ser.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Paradox of Postcolonial State Expansions -- From Greater Indonesia to Greater Israel -- Comparison and Exceptionalism in the Research Literature -- Chapter 1 A Theory of Postcolonial State Expansions -- A Causal Pathway of Postcolonial State Expansions -- Varieties of State Expansion -- Varieties of State Contraction -- Taxonomies of Rule and Resistance -- A Note on Case Selection -- Contribution to the Literature -- Chapter 2 The Late Colonial State in the Middle East |
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The Legacy of Self-Destruct Colonialism in the Maghreb and the Levant -- The French Mandate in Syria and Lebanon -- The Franco-Spanish Protectorate in Morocco -- The British Mandate in Palestine -- Jews, Berbers, Alawites: The Colonial Minority Policy -- Create Two, Three, Many Lebanons -- The Berbers, the Sultan, and "Old Morocco" -- The Other Natives: British Ambivalence toward Zionism -- From State Evasion to State Formation -- The Alawite State and the Alawite Rise to Power -- The Rif Republic: A Home for All Berbers? -- The Zionist Project as the Last Minority State -- Conclusion |
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Chapter 3 After Empire: Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial State Formation -- Essentially Contested Statehood: Challenges to State Legitimacy -- The Case Against Syria -- Alternatives to Alawism -- One State, Two States, No State -- Nonsovereign Statehood: Challenges to Stateness -- The Struggle for Syria -- Defending Morocco in the Rif -- Hunting Season in Palestine -- Irredentist Nation Building: The Land beyond the Border -- Greater Syria: From Cyprus to the Euphrates -- Greater Morocco: Down to the Senegal River -- Greater Israel: On Both Banks of the Jordan River |
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Militarized State Building: Putting the State on the Map -- The Syrian Nation-in-Arms -- The Royal Armed Forces and the Palace -- The Origins of Israeli Militarism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Varieties of State Expansion -- Institutional Lock-In: The Logic of Predatory State Consolidation -- Syria: One Nation in Two States -- Morocco: The Saharan Consensus -- Israel: The Return to the Sources -- Syrianization, Moroccanization, and Judaization -- Patronization: The Rise of the Syrian Godfather -- Incorporation: Morocco's Saharan Provinces |
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Exclavization: Jewish Settlements and the Dynamics of Miniaturization -- A New Type of State? Comparing First-Wave and Second-Wave State Expansions -- From the Druze Mountain to Mount Lebanon -- From the Rif to the Sahara -- From the Galilee to the Judean Mountains -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Resistance and Institutional Change -- Varieties of Resistance -- Lebanese Resistance and Maronite Counteridentities -- The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as a Counterinstitution -- Counterforce and Counternarratives in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- Institutional Change and Institutional Inertia |
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Lebanon after 1989: From Patronization to Satellization. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Boundaries -- Case studies.
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Boundaries. |
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Case studies.
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Irredentism -- Case studies.
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Irredentism. |
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Postcolonialism.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Comparative government.
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Comparative government. |
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Syria -- Territorial expansion.
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Syria. |
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Territorial expansion. |
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Morocco -- Territorial expansion.
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Morocco. |
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Israel -- Territorial expansion.
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Israel. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Becke, Johannes The Land Beyond the Border Albany : State University of New York Press,c2021 9781438482231 |
| ISBN |
9781438482248 |
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1438482248 |
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