What Is a Country? History and the Creation of the Maghreb

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Titre

What Is a Country? History and the Creation of the Maghreb

Créateur

Vikør, Knut S. Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2024

Dans

A Comparative Historical and Typological Approach to the Middle Eastern State System Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Comparative Social Research Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

While most West European nations were formed around pre-existing entities that could be called “countries” before the modern age, this was not the case in the Middle East. Some entities, like Egypt, did have a clear political and cultural identity before colonialism, others, like Algeria, did not. This chapter discusses the four states of the Maghreb: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, through the perspective of “country creation” going into and coming out of colonial rule. We can see here two “models” of fairly similar types of historical development, one showing a gradual process through a protectorate period to relatively stable modern nations, another through violent conquest and direct colonization ending in violent liberation and military and wealthy but fragile states. The article asks whether these models for the history of country creation and the presence or absence of pre-colonial identities can help explain the modern history and nature of these states in the Arab Spring and the years thereafter. Then, a more tentative attempt is made to apply these models to two countries of the Arab east, Syria and Iraq. While local variations ensure that no model can be transferred directly, it can show the importance of studying the historical factors that go into the transition from geographical region to a country with people that can form the basis of a nation.

Editeur

Emerald Publishing Limited Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Place

Bingley

Langue

Eng

rédacteur

Mjøset, Lars Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Butenschøn, Nils Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Berg Harpviken, Kristian Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

volume

36

pages

35-70

ISBN

978-1-83753-122-6 978-1-83753-123-3

Titre abrégé

What Is a Country?

uri

https://doi.org/10.1108/S0195-631020240000036003

Vikør, Knut S., “What Is a Country? History and the Creation of the Maghreb”, Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024, bibliographie, consulté le 21 décembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/23004