POLI 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Arab Spring, Nationstates, Arab Nationalism
28 Sep 2014
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Defining the state: elements of the modern state (weber), administrative organizations, financial/tax collection system. Gives legitimacy gives citizens a contractual relationship in the state and a literal investment in the state: military. Standing military would be considered in a modern state. Would palestine be considered a state with no military: territorial integrity. Used to be systems of patrimony, clienteles. Examples: national identity was secondary to other forms of identification in certain areas, even strong states because of this was not stable, this further weakened weak states. National identity and state legitimacy: citizenship/patriotism versus identity/loyalty. Sense of egyptian identity but also arab identity: supra-state identities, arab nationalism. Israel-palestine conflict pan-arab mobilization to opposition to israel. Ba"ath arabism in syria and iraq, egypt: islam. There were other religious groups in the me. People of varying degrees of following to islam: anti-imperialism. 1950s-1960s foreign policy trends in the me: radical goals (redrawing borders, etc. )
