A Comparative Historical and Typological Approach to the Middle Eastern State System
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A Comparative Historical and Typological Approach to the Middle Eastern State System

Taking Stein Rokkan’s Ambitions Beyond Europe

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A Comparative Historical and Typological Approach to the Middle Eastern State System

Taking Stein Rokkan’s Ambitions Beyond Europe

About this book

The study of state formation and nation building is a proud tradition. Currently, however, it is difficult to discern a unified research frontier in this field, due to a persistent gap between the more case-based historical focus seen in area studies, and more generalizing approaches inspired by the natural sciences.

Showcasing the legacy of Norwegian political scientist and sociologist Stein Rokkan, this volume explores the potential of his work to address this gap. Featuring Rokkan's lecture skeleton methodology, given in Paris 1976, but included here as the first ever English language translation, this collection brings into sharp focus how Rokkan developed a set of methodological tools that allowed the construction of regional models and typological maps for guiding paired or clustered comparisons of state formation and nation building in any world region. Acknowledging Rokkan's key argument that relevant models and maps need to be developed through knowledge about a region's history rather than through formal concepts alone, contributors draw on the full potential of Rokkan's innovations by calibrating them with empirical material from a world region not analysed by Rokkan himself: the Middle East.

Thoughtfully reconstructing and upgrading Rokkan's methodology, A Comparative Historical and Typological Approach to the Middle Eastern State System ushers in a new vision in the field of state formation and nation building.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Editor
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 A Family of Models for European Comparative History: Paris Lecture 4th December 1976
  9. Chapter 2 Rokkan and the ‘Variable’
  10. Chapter 3 What Is a Country? History and the Creation of the Maghreb
  11. Chapter 4 A Conceptual Map for Comparison of State Formation and Nation-Building in the Middle East 1870–1918
  12. Chapter 5 Female Citizenship and Divorce Law Reform in Arab States: The Gradual Expansion of Women’s Legal Capacity in North Africa
  13. Chapter 6 External Intervention and Domestic Instrumentalization: A Structured, Focused Comparison of the Roles of Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen
  14. Book Symposium