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From resilience to revolution
2015,2016
Overview
Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Sean L. Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that made the political regimes of the modern Middle East. A key text for foreign policy scholars,From Resilience to Revolutionshows how outside interference can corrupt the most basic choices of governance: who to reward, who to punish, who to compensate, and who to manipulate.
As colonial rule dissolved in the 1930s and 1950s, Middle Eastern autocrats constructed new political states to solidify their reigns, with varying results. Why did equally ambitious authoritarians meet such unequal fates? Yom ties the durability of Middle Eastern regimes to their geopolitical origins. At the dawn of the postcolonial era, many autocratic states had little support from their people and struggled to overcome widespread opposition. When foreign powers intervened to bolster these regimes, they unwittingly sabotaged the prospects for long-term stability by discouraging leaders from reaching out to their people and bargaining for mass support-early coalitional decisions that created repressive institutions and planted the seeds for future unrest. Only when they were secluded from larger geopolitical machinations did Middle Eastern regimes come to grips with their weaknesses and build broader coalitions.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Subject
/ Authoritarianism -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century
/ History
/ HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula
/ HISTORY / Middle East / General
/ HISTORY / Middle East / Iran
/ History, Middle East Studies
/ Iran
/ Iran -- Politics and government -- 20th century
/ Jordan
/ Jordan -- Politics and government -- 20th century
/ Kuwait
/ Kuwait -- Politics and government -- 20th century
/ Middle East -- Foreign relations -- Western countries
/ Middle East -- Politics and government -- 20th century
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern
/ Political stability -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century
ISBN
0231175647, 9780231175647, 0231540272, 9780231540278
