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Rethinking Hizballah : Legitimacy, Authority, Violence.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (163 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780754699224
  • 0754699226
  • 9781409484882
  • 1409484882
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 322.42095692 324.25692/082 324.25692082
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Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Lebanon's Sectarian System; 3 Legitimacy, Authority and Resistance; 4 Violence and Legitimacy in the Lebanese Context 1985-2010; 5 Sovereignty, International Relations and the Curious Case of Hizballah; 6 The Special Tribunal for Lebanon; 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Lebanon's Sectarian System; 3 Legitimacy, Authority and Resistance; 4 Violence and Legitimacy in the Lebanese Context 1985-2010; 5 Sovereignty, International Relations and the Curious Case of Hizballah; 6 The Special Tribunal for Lebanon; 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-136) and index.

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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.

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