From Resilience to Revolution by Sean L. Yom - 2016

Columbia University Press, 2015-12-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Columbia University Press, 2015-12-01. Hardcover. Good. Clean, flat pages with solid binding. Glossy dust jacket with slight wrinkle top edge. No markings.

Hardback. New. Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Sean L. Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that made the political regimes of the modern Middle East. A key text for foreign policy scholars, From Resilience to Revolution shows how outside interference can corrupt the most basic choices of governance: who to reward, who to punish, who to compensate, and who to manipulate. As colonial rule dissolved in the 1930s and 1950s, Middle Eastern autocrats constructed new political states to solidify their reigns, with varying results. Why did equally ambitious authoritarians meet such unequal fates? Yom ties the durability of Middle Eastern regimes to their geopolitical origins. At the dawn of the postcolonial era, many autocratic states had little support from their people and struggled to overcome widespread opposition. When foreign powers intervened to bolster these regimes, they unwittingly sabotaged the prospects for… Read More

Hardback. New.

Columbia Univ Pr, 2015. Hardcover. New. 288 pages. 8.00x5.00x1.00 inches.

Columbia University Press. hardcover. New. 145x96x14. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing