Instability in the Middle East
Subtitle: structural changes and uneven modernisation, 1950-2015
By: Karel Černý
Edition: First English edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9788024634272
Subjects: Political stability; Social change
Description: "Middle Eastern instability is seen externally in many ways: by crises afflicting governing regimes, the rise of political Islam, terrorism, revolution, civil war, increased migration, and the collapse of states. Countering common interpretations of postcolonial Middle Eastern development, Instability in the Middle East focuses on the uneven and unsynchronized pace of change within sociodemographic, economic, and political aspects of modernization. Drawing on the theory of multiple modernities, Karel Černý investigates the broader cultural, religious, and international political context of uneven modernization in the Middle East and tests his model using a time series of dozens of indicators over the past fifty years, revealing a long-term trend of cumulative change across the region."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 456-472) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Chronic instability in the Middle East; title: Political modernisation: weak and authoritarian states; title: Economic modernisation: volatile and distorted; title: Population explosion: the Middle East and its abandoned young people; title: The media revolution: the Middle East as a religious marketplace; title: The expansion of education: the Middle East and the "lumpenintelligentsia"; title: The boom in megacities: a whirlwind of urbanisation in the Middle East; title: Conclusion.