War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East

by Steven Heydemann (Editor)

Overview

Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill this gap, War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the role of war preparation and war-making on the formation and transformation of states and societies in the contemporary Middle East. Their findings pose significant challenges to widely accepted assumptions and present new theoretical starting points for the study of war and the state in the contemporary developing world.

Heydemann's collaborators include political scientists, historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Their essays are both theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, covering topics such as the effects of World War II on state-market relations in Syria and Egypt, the role of war in the rise of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the political economy of Lebanese militias, and the effects of the 1967 war on state and social institutions in Israel. The volume originated as a research planning project of the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the Social Science Research Council.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520224223
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	12/01/2000
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	379
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1680L (what's this?)

About the Author

Steven Heydemann is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University in New York City and the author of Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict, 1946-1970 (1999).

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
1.	War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East	1
Part 1	War, State, and Markets in the Middle East: the Political Economy of World Wars I and II
2.	Guns, Gold, and Grain: War and Food Supply in the Making of Transjordan	33
3.	The Climax and Crisis of the Colonial Welfare State in Syria and Lebanon during World War II	59
4.	War, Keynesianism, and Colonialism: Explaining State-Market Relations in the Postwar Middle East	100
Part 2	War, State, and Society in the Contemporary Middle East
5.	Si Vis Stabilitatem, Para Bellum: State Building, National Security, and War Preparation in Syria	149
6.	Changing Boundaries and Social Crisis: Israel and the 1967 War	174
7.	War as Leveler, War as Midwife: Palestinian Political Institutions, Nationalism, and Society since 1948	200
8.	War in the Social Memory of Egyptian Peasants	240
9.	War as a Vehicle for the Rise and Demise of a State-Controlled Society: The Case of Ba'thist Iraq	258
10.	The Political Economy of Civil War in Lebanon	292
Part 3	Conclusion
11.	The Cumulative Impact of Middle Eastern Wars	325
	Selected Bibliography	335
	List of Contributors	357
	Index	361