Rethinking Hizballah
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Global Geopolitical Interests
Hizballah Fighters
Iltizam System
IR Theory
lebanese
Lebanese Context
Lebanese Political Actors
Lebanese Political System
Lebanese politics
Lebanese Sovereignty
Lebanese State
Lebanon's Foreign Policy
Lebanon's Sovereignty
Lebanon’s Foreign Policy
Lebanon’s Sovereignty
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March 14th Coalition
Maronite Hegemony
Middle East security
Musa Al Sadr
nonstate actors
political violence theory
private authority in Lebanon
resistance movements
Resistance Society
sectarian conflict
Shura Council
Somali Pirates
Sovereign Breach
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United Nations International Independent Investigations
Walid Jumblat
Product details
- ISBN 9780754679660
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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International Relations scholarship posits that legitimacy, authority and violence are attributes of states. However, groups like Hizballah clearly challenge this framing of global politics through its continued ability to exercise violence in the regional arena. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of state-society relations in Lebanon, this book presents a lucid examination of the socio-political conditions that gave rise to the Lebanese movement Hizballah from 1982 until the present. Framing and analysing Hizballah through the perspective of the 'resistance society'; an articulation of identity politics that informs the violent and non-violent political strategies of the movement, Abboud and Muller demonstrate how Hizballah poses a challenge to the Lebanese state through its acquisition and exercise of private authority, and the implications this has for other Lebanese political actors. An essential insight into the complexities of the workings of Hizballah, this book broadens our understanding of how legitimacy, authority and violence can be acquired and exercised outside the structure of the sovereign nation-state. An invaluable resource for scholars working in the fields of Critical Comparative Politics and International Relations.
Samer N. Abboud, Benjamin J. Muller
