Nationality and Nationalism

2004
 |  Political Science
Nationality and Nationalism

Author: Steven Grosby

Publisher: I.B. Tauris

ISBN: 1860647103

Category: Political Science

Page: 394

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The year 1989 was marked by an explosion of nationalist movements. These took place most massively not in the Western world where the principle of nationality is widely accepted but in the Soviet world which had banned it from the substance of the social, economic and cultural life of its people in the name of universalism and internationalism. It was thus that a new age on nationalism began, which in turn has given to a resurgence of scholarship in this field adding to and modifying earlier understandings. The set will offer a carefully selected anthology of the most important theoretical and empirical literature in the field. It will include translations of little known but major texts on nationality and nationalism from German and French sources and will include articles devoted to individual cases of nationality/nationalism in Europe, Asia,and the rest of the world. Scholars, students and practitioners in international relations, political science, sociology, law, geography, and history will find this collection a vital resource to a highly topical area.

Minority Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

2018-02-02
 |  Social Science
Minority Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

Author: Will Kymlicka

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317205500

Category: Social Science

Page: 138

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Projects of democratic reform in the Middle East and North Africa have said little about the place of minorities and minority rights in their vision of reform, implying that these issues are best deferred to some indefinite future. While many people describe the Arab Spring as a ‘battle for pluralism’, there is a reluctance to discuss what this pluralism might actually mean for the political claims of minorities, for fear of triggering divisive conflicts and undemocratic tendencies. Is there an alternative to this fearful deferral of minority politics? Can we imagine ‘transformative minority politics’ – that is, a form of minority politics that strengthens democratic reform in the region, and that helps deepen a culture of human rights and democratic citizenship? This volume explores whether this is indeed a realistic prospect in the Middle East and North Africa, examining cases that include the Amazigh in North Africa, the Copts in Egypt, the Kurds in Iraq, the Palestinians in Israel, the ‘minoritarian’ regimes in Syria and Bahrain, and various ethnic minorities in Iran. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Understanding the City through its Margins

2017-07-28
 |  History
Understanding the City through its Margins

Author: André Chappatte

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781351695688

Category: History

Page: 190

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Cities the world over and in particular developing countries suffer from uneven development and inequality. This is often coupled with the view that these inequalities constitute unfortunate anomalies. In contrast, this edited volume draws out the ways in which the city has not been able to exist without its margins, both materially, ideationally, and socially. In this book the margins are, first, the mirrors of the city and, second, a fundamental route through which various centers can legitimate and sustain their power. Contemporary case studies are compared to a number of those from history with the accent on Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and engage with the underlying theoretical questions of what is the urban margin and what is marginality in urban society and spaces?

Peoples of the World

1992
 |  Africa, North
Peoples of the World

Author: Joyce Moss

Publisher: Peoples of the World

ISBN: UCSC:32106010209986

Category: Africa, North

Page: 470

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A comprehensive study of differences among the ethnic groups of the Middle East and North Africa.

Power Mismatch and Civil Conflict

2022
 |  Civil war
Power Mismatch and Civil Conflict

Author: Massimo Morelli

Publisher:

ISBN: OCLC:1350386552

Category: Civil war

Page: 0

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This paper empirically shows that the imbalance between an ethnic group’s political and military power is crucial to understand the likelihood that a group engages in a conflict. We develop a novel measure of a group’s military power by combining machine learning techniques with rich data on ethnic group characteristics and outcomes of civil conflicts in Africa and the Middle East. We couple this measure with available indicators of ethnic groups’ political power as well as with a novel proxy based on information about the ethnicity of cabinet members. We find that groups characterized by a higher mismatch between military and political power are approximately 30% more likely to engage in a conflict against their government. We also find that the effects of power mismatch are nonlinear, which is in agreement with the predictions of a simple model that accounts for the cost of conflict. Moreover, our results suggest that high-mismatched groups are typically involved in larger, longer, and centrist conflicts.

Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East

1990
 |  History
Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East

Author: Philip Shukry Khoury

Publisher: Univ of California Press

ISBN: 9780520070806

Category: History

Page: 367

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Offering a fuller understanding of the complexities and particular patterns of state formation in regions where tribes have exercised a significant influence, this volume focuses on the continuing existence of tribal structures and systems in contemporary times, within contemporary nation-states. The contributors offer hypotheses as to why these groups have managed to survive and what impact they have had on modern states ... --backcover.