Levant in Turmoil

Syria, Palestine, and the Transformation of Middle Eastern Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Av Martin Beck, Dietrich Jung, Peter Seeberg

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Since the early weeks of the so-called Arab Spring, high hopes for democratic, social, and political change in the Middle East have been met with varying degrees of frustration. In the sub-region of the Levant, regional uprisings have turned to violent conflict in places such as Syria, Iraq, and the Gaza Strip. In Syria, popular unrest has caused enormous human suffering in one of the most brutal civil wars the region ever has witnessed, yet the international community has shown an appalling inability to act. Taking the war in Syria as its central point of reference, this book raises the question of whether the developments in the Levant might lead not only to processes of regime change, but also to a fundamental alteration of its entire state system.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-06
Mått140 x 216 x 21 mm
Vikt456 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieModern Muslim World
Antal sidor226
Upplaga16001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137537225

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Martin Beck is Chair of Contemporary Middle East Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. He has published extensively on Middle Eastern affairs. Dietrich Jung is Professor and Head of Department at the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark. He has published widely on wars and conflicts in the Middle East, as well as on modern Islam. Peter Seeberg is Associate Professor and Director of the DJUCO-project, an academic cooperation project in Amman, Jordan, since 2009 funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (www.djuco.org).

ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction: Political Turmoil and Social Transformation in the Levant; Martin Beck, Dietrich Jung, and Peter Seeberg1. Syria's Civil War and the Reconfiguration of Regional Politics; Fred H. Lawson2. Deadly Implications: The Rise of Sectarianism in Syria; Peter Sluglett3. Conflict, Governance and Decentralized Authority in Syria; Samer N. Abboud4. The Syrian Refugee Crisis And Its Impact On Jordan: In Reference to the Regime's Structural Deficits; Simone Hüser5. The Crisis in Syria, International and Regional Sanctions and the Transformation of the Political Order in the Levant; Peter Seeberg6. The 'Syrian Effects' and the Regional Quest for Human Dignity in the New Syrian, Egyptian and Tunesian Constitutions; Mervat F. Hatem7. Israel and a Palestinian State: Redrawing Lines?; Lorenzo Kamel8. Failed Attempts or Faliures to Attempt? Western Policies toward PalestinianStatehood; Martin Beck9. Turmoil in the Levant: Inconclusive Conclusions; Dietrich JungContributor Bios Index

“A collection of nine scholarly essays by prominent experts, The Levant in Turmoil: Syria, Palestine, and the Transformation of Middle Eastern Politics is a multidisciplinary work about how the ongoing Syrian civil war is transforming the geography, history, and culture of the Levant. … The Levant in Turmoil: Syria, Palestine, and the Transformation of Middle Eastern Politics will be of interest to both students and scholars alike whose scholarship focuses on the broader Middle East.” (ASQ – Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 39 (1), 2017)