The Land Beyond the Border State Formation and Territorial Expansion in Syria, Morocco, and Israel.

The Land Beyond the Border State Formation and Territorial Expansion in Syria, Morocco, and Israel.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Becke, Johannes
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2021.
Series:SUNY Series in Comparative Politics Ser.
Subjects:
Boundaries > Case studies.
Irredentism > Case studies.
Postcolonialism.
Comparative government.
Syria > Territorial expansion.
Morocco > Territorial expansion.
Israel > Territorial expansion.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The Paradox of Postcolonial State Expansions
  • From Greater Indonesia to Greater Israel
  • Comparison and Exceptionalism in the Research Literature
  • Chapter 1 A Theory of Postcolonial State Expansions
  • A Causal Pathway of Postcolonial State Expansions
  • Varieties of State Expansion
  • Varieties of State Contraction
  • Taxonomies of Rule and Resistance
  • A Note on Case Selection
  • Contribution to the Literature
  • Chapter 2 The Late Colonial State in the Middle East
  • The Legacy of Self-Destruct Colonialism in the Maghreb and the Levant
  • The French Mandate in Syria and Lebanon
  • The Franco-Spanish Protectorate in Morocco
  • The British Mandate in Palestine
  • Jews, Berbers, Alawites: The Colonial Minority Policy
  • Create Two, Three, Many Lebanons
  • The Berbers, the Sultan, and "Old Morocco"
  • The Other Natives: British Ambivalence toward Zionism
  • From State Evasion to State Formation
  • The Alawite State and the Alawite Rise to Power
  • The Rif Republic: A Home for All Berbers?
  • The Zionist Project as the Last Minority State
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3 After Empire: Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial State Formation
  • Essentially Contested Statehood: Challenges to State Legitimacy
  • The Case Against Syria
  • Alternatives to Alawism
  • One State, Two States, No State
  • Nonsovereign Statehood: Challenges to Stateness
  • The Struggle for Syria
  • Defending Morocco in the Rif
  • Hunting Season in Palestine
  • Irredentist Nation Building: The Land beyond the Border
  • Greater Syria: From Cyprus to the Euphrates
  • Greater Morocco: Down to the Senegal River
  • Greater Israel: On Both Banks of the Jordan River
  • Militarized State Building: Putting the State on the Map
  • The Syrian Nation-in-Arms
  • The Royal Armed Forces and the Palace
  • The Origins of Israeli Militarism
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 Varieties of State Expansion
  • Institutional Lock-In: The Logic of Predatory State Consolidation
  • Syria: One Nation in Two States
  • Morocco: The Saharan Consensus
  • Israel: The Return to the Sources
  • Syrianization, Moroccanization, and Judaization
  • Patronization: The Rise of the Syrian Godfather
  • Incorporation: Morocco's Saharan Provinces
  • Exclavization: Jewish Settlements and the Dynamics of Miniaturization
  • A New Type of State? Comparing First-Wave and Second-Wave State Expansions
  • From the Druze Mountain to Mount Lebanon
  • From the Rif to the Sahara
  • From the Galilee to the Judean Mountains
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 Resistance and Institutional Change
  • Varieties of Resistance
  • Lebanese Resistance and Maronite Counteridentities
  • The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as a Counterinstitution
  • Counterforce and Counternarratives in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
  • Institutional Change and Institutional Inertia

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