POLI 341 Lecture Notes - Arab Nationalism, Arab Spring, Nationstates
22 Jan 2013
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In the news this week: protesters in jordan demanding that the election be postponed, israeli election is today. European powers were basing these new borders on the past city model rural areas still depended on the elites/tenant system and economic) economic is where you see a lot of effects. Rentier states dependence on foreign aid and borrowing state not held responsible enough by its own citizens through taxes affects legitimacy. National identity and state legitimacy: citizenship/patriotism vs. identity/loyalty how much is your base identity linked to that sense of belonging to a state, as opposed to an identity based on loyalty to something else (religion, family, tribe) 1950s-1960s nasser and pan-arabism when most states were just gaining their independence were not seen as permanent yet, as though lines could still be redrawn. United arab republic (union into one country of egypt and.
