Power and policy in Syria
Subtitle: intelligence services, foreign relations and democracy in the modern Middle East
By: Radwan Ziadeh
Series: Library of modern Middle East studies -- v. 98
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies; I.B. Tauris and Co.; Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781848854345
Subjects: Politics and government; Intelligence service; Democracy; Foreign relations
Description: "As a result of the formation of the modern Turkish state, nationalist narratives of the Ottoman Empire's collapse are commonplace. "Remapping the Ottoman Middle East", on the other hand, examines alternative and disparate routes to modernity during the nineteenth century. Pursuing a comparison of different regions of the empire, this book demonstrates that the Ottoman imperial universe was shaped by three distinct and simultaneous narratives: market relations in its coastal areas; imperial bureaucracy in the cities of central Anatolia, Syria and Palestine; and, Islamic trust networks in the frontier regions of the Arabian Peninsula. In weaving together these localized developments, Cem Emrence departs from narratives of state centralism and suggests that a comprehensive way of understanding the late Ottoman world and its legacy should start from exploring regionally-constituted and network-based historical trajectories. Introducing a persuasive new model for understanding the late Ottoman world, this book will be essential reading for historians of the Ottoman Empire."--Bloomsbury publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-219) and index.