The Arab State: Dilemmas of Late Formation

by Adham Saouli

Book Overview

This book explores the conditions of state formation and survival in the Middle East. Based on Historical Sociology, it provides a model for study of the state in the Arab world and a theory to explain its survival.

Examining states as a 'process', the author argues that what emerged in the Middle East in the beginning of the twentieth century are 'social fields'-where states form and deform-and not states as defined by Max Weber...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415602955
• ISBN13: 9780415602952
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"