The Struggle for the State in Jordan: The Social Origins of Alliances in the Middle East (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784532307)

Why do the states of the Arab world seem so unstable? Why do alliances between them and with outside powers change? Jamie Allinson argues that the answer lies in the expansion of global capitalism in the Middle East. Drawing out the unexpected way in which Jordan's Bedouin tribes became allied to the British Empire in the twentieth century, and the legacy of this for the international politics of the Middle East, he challenges the existing views of the region. Using the example of Jordan, this book traces the social bases of the struggles that produced the country's foreign relations in the latter half of the twentieth century to the reforms carried out under the Ottoman Empire and the processes of land settlement and state formation experienced under the British Mandate. By examining the attempts of Jordan to create foreign alliances during a time of upheaval and instability in the region, Allinson offers wider conclusions concerning the nature of the interaction between state and society in the wider Middle East.

Author: Jamie Allinson
ISBN-10: 1784532304
ISBN-13: 9781784532307
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Language: English
Published: 03/05/2016
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d