{"product_id":"9781784535803","title":"Statecraft in the Middle East : Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and Security","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eStatecraft in the Middle East\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Imad Mansour\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat role do ideas play in state-building and state activity? Thisbook argues that government policies in both foreign relationsand domestic politics must always be situated within a broaderideational and societal context. Imad Mansour analyses how governments in thecontemporary Middle East have governed internally and acted externally basedon societal narratives, which bring together a variety of ideas about a society'shistory and place in the world. He argues that there is a dominant societalnarrative that acts as a primary building block of statecraft, where statecraftis understood as an ongoing set of local, regional and global state-buildingprocesses. Mansour investigates the ways in which statecraft in the Middle Easthas been guided by narratives through a close historical reading and comparativediscussion of the political activity of six states - Egypt, Israel, Syria, Turkey,Saudi Arabia and Iran - in the second half of the twentieth century and the earlytwenty-first century. His book demonstrates the analytical power of narrativesin understanding statecraft and explains why governments' decisions need to beunderstood in complex ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781784535803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"I.B. Tauris","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40698548125902,"sku":"9781784535803","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_01864b92-a177-4263-8d61-cc402bfd5ddc.jpg?v=1640492657","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781784535803","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}