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Ministère de la guerre. Instruction du 14 janvier 1897 relative à l'organisation des camps annexes des champs de tir et de manoeuvres régionaux pour les troupes d'infanterie. (Extrait du "Bulletin officiel", partie réglementaire, année 1897).
Author: Droll Stories
Author: Honoré de BalzacThe Rentier State
Author: Hazem BeblawiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317410432
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This volume, first published in 1987, is devoted to a discussion of interrelations of the economic base with the cultural, social and political structures, and of its impact on the state. The ‘rentier states’ of the Middle East, which derive a substantial part of their revenue from foreign sources in the form of rent, largely oil revenues, face the same basic problem, the challenge of transforming their economies to give increased strength to productive activity and rely on its progress to increase state revenue from domestic sources. This book, Volume Two in the Nation, State and Integration in the Arab World research project carried out by the Istituto Affari Internazionali, examine the issue of the modernization of rentier states’ public finance, which may well entail important modifications in their domestic politics.
Born Arming
Author: A. F. MullinsPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804713757
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
The Arab State
Author: Giacomo LucianiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131741151X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
It has often been argued that Arab states are arbitrary political creations, lacking historical or present legitimacy. This book, first published in 1990, provides a different picture of ‘the Arab state’, drawing on historical, economic, philosophical and sociological perspectives to give a balanced and convincing view of the complex reality of contemporary Arab politics. The contributors, from the Arab countries, from Europe and the United States, investigate the roots of the nation state in the Arab world, evaluating in particular the economic bases of individual states. They discuss the evolution of Arab societies and the way this is reflected in different states, and examine the problems of domestic and international integration in the Arab context. Original and comprehensive in its findings, this is an essential text on the fundamental political structure of the Arab world. Its interdisciplinary breadth makes possible an entirely new reading of the political reality of the Middle East.
War and the Rise of the State
Author: Bruce D. PorterPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439105480
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
States make war, but war also makes states. As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars have been catalysts for increasing the size and power of Western governments since the Renaissance. The state’s monopoly of effective violence has diminished not only individual rights and liberties, but also the ability of local communities and private associates to challenge the centralization of authority. Porter’s originality lies in his thesis that war, breaking down barriers of class, gender, ethnicity, and ideology, also contributes to meritocracy, mobility, and, above all, democratization. Porter also posits the emergence of the “Scientific Warfare State,” a political system in which advanced technology would render obsolete mass participation in war. This provocative study merits wide circulation and serious discussion.”
War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East
Author: Steven HeydemannPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520224221
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
A fresh look at the effects of war on state and society in the Middle East, challenging traditional assumptions based on European experience. The authors argue that war has destabilized Middle Eastern states and eroded national cohesion.
The Military Revolution and Political Change
Author: Brian DowningPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691024752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
To examine the long-run origins of democracy and dictatorship, Brian Downing focuses on the importance of medieval political configurations and of military modernization in the early modern period. He maintains that in late medieval times an array of constitutional arrangements distinguished Western Europe from other parts of the world and predisposed it toward liberal democracy. He then looks at how medieval constitutionalism was affected by the "military revolution" of the early modern era--the shift from small, decentralized feudal levies to large standing armies. Downing won the American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award for the dissertation on which this book was based.
State Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East
Author: Lecturer in the Recent Economic History of the Middle East and Fellow Roger OwenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134643551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Roger Owen has fully revised and updated his authoritative text to take into account the considerable developments in the Middle East in the 1990s.
Blood and Debt
Author: Miguel Angel CentenoPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271074191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. Challenging the dominance of this model, Blood and Debt looks at Latin America's much different experience as more relevant to politics today in regions as varied as the Balkans and sub-Saharan Africa. The book's illuminating review of the relatively peaceful history of Latin America from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries reveals the lack of two critical prerequisites needed for war: a political and military culture oriented toward international violence, and the state institutional capacity to carry it out. Using innovative new data such as tax receipts, naming of streets and public monuments, and conscription records, the author carefully examines how war affected the fiscal development of the state, the creation of national identity, and claims to citizenship. Rather than building nation-states and fostering democratic citizenship, he shows, war in Latin America destroyed institutions, confirmed internal divisions, and killed many without purpose or glory.