Hezbollah : The Political Economy of Lebanon's Party of God （Library Binding）

Daher, Joseph

Pluto Press（2016/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780745336930
• DDC分類 305.697

Full Description

Hezbollah provides a new, grounded analysis of the controversial and misunderstood Lebanese party. Where previous books have focused on aspects of the party's identity, the military question or its religious discourse, here Joseph Daher presents an alternative perspective, built upon political economy.

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Lebanon and dozens of interviews, as well as new archival and other primary sources, Daher's analysis confidently positions Hezbollah within socio-economic and political developments in Lebanon and the Middle East. He emphasises Hezbollah's historic ties with its main sponsor, the Islamic Republic of Iran, its media and cultural wings and its relationship with Western economic policies.

Further chapters examine the party's policies towards workers' struggles and women's issues, and its orientation towards the sectarian Lebanese political system. Hezbollah is a well informed and fresh analysis of a topic which remains central to our understanding of one of the world's most tumultuous and politically unstable regions.

Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Sectarianism and the Lebanese Political Economy: Hezbollah's Origins

2. Hezbollah and the Political Economy of Lebanese Neoliberalism

3. Lebanese Class Structure under Neoliberalism

4. Hezbollah and Shi'a Civil Society

5. Hezbollah and the Lebanese Labor Movement

6. Hezbollah's Military Apparatus

7. Hezbollah and Revolutionary Processes in the Middle East and North Africa Since 2011

Conclusion

Appendix: Shi'a Fraction of the Bourgeoisie

Notes

References

Index