Occupying Syria under the French mandate: insurgency, space and state formation
In: Cambridge Middle East studies, [38]
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In: Cambridge Middle East studies, [38]
World Affairs Online
In: The Middle East journal, Band 76, Heft 1, S. 124-124
ISSN: 1940-3461
War-Torn: The Unmaking of Syria, 2011–2021, by Leïla Vignal. London: Hurst, 2021. 328 pages. £30.
In: International affairs, Band 97, Heft 6, S. 1825-1841
ISSN: 1468-2346
Scholars of Middle East politics have been reluctant to explore how the long nineteenth century has shaped the region's political development. The reason for this neglect, I argue, is a common understanding of Ottoman decline and failed modernization, which suggests that the story of modern politics in the Middle East commences with colonial partition after the First World War. But what if political scientists are getting the story wrong? In this article, I argue that our background assumptions about the political development of the Middle East reflect outdated understandings that historians themselves have long left behind. Drawing on this revisionist Ottoman historiography, I show that key dynamics in Middle East politics today—such as state-building and sectarian identities—originate not in the era ushered in by the Sykes–Picot Accord, but in the transformations of the long nineteenth century. By overlooking the evolution of late Ottoman politics and their historical legacies, political scientists risk misdiagnosing key dynamics in the region's political development. 'Bringing the Ottomans back in' highlights to policy-makers the importance of the extra-institutional dimensions of statebuilding in the Middle East, and opens up new vistas for research in comparative–historical political science.
In: International affairs, Band 97, Heft 6, S. 1825-1841
ISSN: 0020-5850
World Affairs Online
In: New political economy, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 495-511
ISSN: 1469-9923
In: Journal of historical sociology, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 466-495
ISSN: 1467-6443
AbstractNeo‐Weberian historical sociology and political science establishes that territory is a defining feature of the modern state. Drawing on insights from political geography, I argue that 'territory' is not a pre‐existing physical location, but aneffectproduced by state practices and technologies. The spatial fetish of territory, moreover, distracts analytical attention from the equally importantnon‐territorialdimensions of the state. To map these new and unfamiliar dimensions, I propose three analogies from the study of physics ‐ wormholes, gravitational fields, and quantum entanglement ‐ as powerful conceptual devices with the potential to reorient social scientists towards a fuller understanding of state‐space.
In: Cambridge review of international affairs, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 798-801
ISSN: 1474-449X
In: Political studies review, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 64-65
ISSN: 1478-9302
In: Cambridge review of international affairs, S. 1-3
ISSN: 0955-7571
In: Political studies review, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 260-261
ISSN: 1478-9302
In: The RUSI journal: publication of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, Band 159, Heft 2, S. 97-98
ISSN: 1744-0378
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 795-797
ISSN: 1471-6380
Historical sociology has long been concerned with the study of organized state violence. Since the mid-1970s, a substantial body of work has come to focus on the importance of warfare to historical processes of state formation. The first generation of this literature proposed that the relentless existential struggle between the warring polities of medieval Europe had favored the survival of states that could adopt ever more efficient means to extract and mobilize resources from the local population to feed the war effort. Early states therefore evolved the institutions to collect taxes and administer territory largely as a functional byproduct of interstate military competition. From this perspective, the logic of war making was the driving force behind the rise of the modern state in Europe.
In: Political studies review, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 147-147
ISSN: 1478-9302
In: Political studies review, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 147
ISSN: 1478-9299
In: Millennium: journal of international studies, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 992-993
ISSN: 1477-9021