The Role of Non-State Actors in Post-Conflict State-Building
Efforts to understand Middle Eastern conflict by many analysts have adopted a largely primordial approach, based on the notion that sectarian tensions are ancient and unchangeable. Through this lens, conflict in countries like Lebanon and Iraq are assessed by some as being further expressions of cen...
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/13638 https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2022.269 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/thesis.php |
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| author | Al-Shabandar, Aya |
| author_facet | Al-Shabandar, Aya |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Al-Shabandar, Aya |
| dc.date.none.fl_str_mv | 2021 2021-08-08 2022-06-13T10:36:45Z 2022-06-13T10:36:45Z |
| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/13638 https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2022.269 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/thesis.php |
| dc.language.none.fl_str_mv | en |
| dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv | Lebanese American University |
| dc.rights.*.fl_str_mv | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv | Iraq -- Politics and government Shiites -- Iraq Nation-building -- Iraq Ethnic conflict -- Iraq Lebanese American University -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic |
| dc.title.none.fl_str_mv | The Role of Non-State Actors in Post-Conflict State-Building A Study of the Intra-Shia Power Struggle among the Popular Mobilization Units in Iraq |
| dc.type.none.fl_str_mv | Thesis info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| description | Efforts to understand Middle Eastern conflict by many analysts have adopted a largely primordial approach, based on the notion that sectarian tensions are ancient and unchangeable. Through this lens, conflict in countries like Lebanon and Iraq are assessed by some as being further expressions of centuries-old religious tensions. Yet this theoretical framework fails to explain intra-sectarian conflicts. Nor can a strictly instrumentalist approach help explain the puzzle of conflict and competition among same-sect actors. Consequently, this thesis takes up this puzzle by examining ongoing intra-Shia conflict in Iraq among various factions of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs). In so doing, the thesis questions the value of adopting primordialism as the most adequate framework to explain conflict in the Middle East. Instead, the thesis explores alternative, non-essentialist questions: Does this competition have ideological, sectarian undertones, or is it motivated by local and regional political dynamics and struggles? In so doing, the thesis applies a Bourdieusian framework to explain the puzzle of conflict among Iraq’s PMUs, situating this conflict within the competition over a nation’s political field. |
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| spelling | The Role of Non-State Actors in Post-Conflict State-BuildingA Study of the Intra-Shia Power Struggle among the Popular Mobilization Units in IraqAl-Shabandar, AyaIraq -- Politics and governmentShiites -- IraqNation-building -- IraqEthnic conflict -- IraqLebanese American University -- DissertationsDissertations, AcademicEfforts to understand Middle Eastern conflict by many analysts have adopted a largely primordial approach, based on the notion that sectarian tensions are ancient and unchangeable. Through this lens, conflict in countries like Lebanon and Iraq are assessed by some as being further expressions of centuries-old religious tensions. Yet this theoretical framework fails to explain intra-sectarian conflicts. Nor can a strictly instrumentalist approach help explain the puzzle of conflict and competition among same-sect actors. Consequently, this thesis takes up this puzzle by examining ongoing intra-Shia conflict in Iraq among various factions of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs). In so doing, the thesis questions the value of adopting primordialism as the most adequate framework to explain conflict in the Middle East. Instead, the thesis explores alternative, non-essentialist questions: Does this competition have ideological, sectarian undertones, or is it motivated by local and regional political dynamics and struggles? In so doing, the thesis applies a Bourdieusian framework to explain the puzzle of conflict among Iraq’s PMUs, situating this conflict within the competition over a nation’s political field.1 online resource (vii, 76 leaves)Includes bibliographical references (leaf 67-76)Lebanese American University2022-06-13T10:36:45Z2022-06-13T10:36:45Z20212021-08-08Thesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesishttp://hdl.handle.net/10725/13638https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2022.269http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/thesis.phpeninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/136382022-07-07T06:18:43Z |
| spellingShingle | The Role of Non-State Actors in Post-Conflict State-Building Al-Shabandar, Aya Iraq -- Politics and government Shiites -- Iraq Nation-building -- Iraq Ethnic conflict -- Iraq Lebanese American University -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic |
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| title | The Role of Non-State Actors in Post-Conflict State-Building |
| title_full | The Role of Non-State Actors in Post-Conflict State-Building |
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| title_short | The Role of Non-State Actors in Post-Conflict State-Building |
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| topic | Iraq -- Politics and government Shiites -- Iraq Nation-building -- Iraq Ethnic conflict -- Iraq Lebanese American University -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/13638 https://doi.org/10.26756/th.2022.269 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/thesis.php |