POLS 4730 Chapter Notes - Chapter Raymond Hinnebursch: Economic Globalization, Distribution Of Wealth, Geopolitics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 4730
• Professor: Janine Clark

Document Summary

The mena environment the multiple determinants of foreign policies: environment determines the challenges that policymakers face, and in mena this environment is constituted of several distinct levels: the global environment, the interstate environment, and the transstate environment. January 16th, 2018 diluted and limited by strong popular identifications with both larger suprastate communities the. Arab nation, the islamic community and also with smaller sub-state identity groups: as a result, states are highly permeable to transstate movements, and discourse and consensus on the national interest cannot be assumed. Suprastate identity: while irredentism is a feature of much of the third world, what has made the middle east unique is its history of powerful suprastate identities and hence its suprastate politics of pan-arabism and pan- Islamic in content, with attempts to construct alternative definitions of egyptianness pharaonic or. Mediterranean failing and egyptians seeking their country as the national leader of the arabs.