عنوان

The Determinants of Partitioning in the Arab World

Number

TL49449

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

The Determinants of Partitioning in the Arab World

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Hashim Al-Rikabi

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Auger, Vincent

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Western Illinois University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

76

Text of Note

Committee members: Baldi, Gregory; Lee, Jongho

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-05991-5

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

Political Science

Body granting the degree

Western Illinois University

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

Partition as an outcome of civil war has been attributed to various factors. This paper conducts a single country study, the case of 1991 Iraq, to investigate the relevance of certain conditions. Scholars highlighted a cluster of factors, such as the scale of security dilemma, the type of regime, the nature of killing (one-sided or mutual), the nature of neighboring countries (aggressive or seeking-stability), the level of economic development etc. The 1991 Iraq case demonstrates the inability of these factors to explain the divergence of the political outcome of the 1991 Shi'ite and Kurdish uprising, where Kurds obtained de facto partition and Shia were oppressed. On the contrary, it highlighted the significance of the interaction of three factors (demographic concentration, separatist agenda, and permissive external environment), as determinants of partitioning. Since one case might be a deviant, rather than the norm, the paper proceeds by testing the applicability of these determinants in the Arab region by comparing the cases of Lebanon's Civil War of 1975 and Sudan's Second Civil War of 1983. These cases support the significance of the highlighted factors. Given that this paper does not advocate partition, it concludes with recommendations about the prevention of partition, based on the cases of this study.

Middle Eastern Studies; Political science

Subject Term

Social sciences;Arab world;Civil war;Demographics;Elites;External environment;Partition

AlSarraj, Yasser Ammar

Auger, Vincent

Subdivision

Political Science

Western Illinois University

Call Number

1927182268; 10259114

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[Thesis]

276903

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