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Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab World: Lebanon and Algeria - Couverture souple

MacQueen, Benjamin

 
9780522856231: Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab World: Lebanon and Algeria
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0522856233 ISBN 13 : 9780522856231
Editeur : Melbourne University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab MIddle East develops a method for examining the explanatory capacity of political culture in relation to the issues of civil war and conflict resolution in Lebanon and Algeria. How perception, shaped by values and assumptions, affects political behaviour presents scholars with potentially valuable but also dangerous possibilities. Namely, seeking to explore the explanatory capacity of the nebulous concept of political culture can prospectively lead to the cul de sacs of essentialism or relativism. In an attempt to engage with the concept of political culture, Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab Middle East develops a method for examining the explanatory capacity of political culture in relation to the issues of civil war and conflict resolution in Lebanon and Algeria. Applying strict limits on the implementation of political culture in an explanatory capacity, namely its role as a secondary, relational and comparative concept, this book demonstrates how political culture operates to shape the form and affect the legitimacy of conflict resolution processes. This is applied to two peace agreements, Lebanon's Taef Agreement and Algeria's Civil Concord. Here. the importance of 'contextuality' is emphasised in developing a space where political culture can provide explanatory capacity whilst remaining connected to 'macro' theoretical concepts.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr Benjamin MacQueen is a lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University

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Éditeur
Melbourne University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0522856233
ISBN 13 
9780522856231
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
200
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Personne responsable
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