
Instability in the Middle East
Structural Causes and Uneven Modernisation 1950-2015
Karel Cerny(Author)
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic (Publisher)
Published on 3. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-80-246-3427-2 (ISBN)
Description
Middle Eastern instability is manifest externally in many ways: by crises afflicting governing regimes, the rise of political Islam, terrorism, revolution, civil war, increased migration, and the collapse of many states. This book examines the roots of this instability using a theoretically original and empirically supported historical-sociological comparative analysis. Countering common interpretations of postcolonial Middle Eastern development, Instability in the Middle East focuses on the highly uneven and unsynchronized pace of change in individual sociodemographic, economic, and political dimensions of modernization. Drawing on the theory of multiple modernities, Cerny 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ovocny
Czech Republic
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
780 gr
ISBN-13
978-80-246-3427-2 (9788024634272)
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Instability in the Middle East
Structural Causes and Uneven Modernisation 1950-2015
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Instability in the Middle East
Structural Causes and Uneven Modernisation 1950-2015
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Persons
Karel Cerny is a lecturer in the Department of Historical Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, at Charles University Prague. Phil Jones is a translator of Czech into English.