| Éditeur : I.B.Tauris | Date & Lieu : 2001, London |
| Préface : | Pages : 390 |
| Traduction : | ISBN : 1-86064-622-0 |
| Langue : Anglais | Format : 140x215 mm |
| Thème : Histoire |
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 Iraq Since 1958: From Revolution to Dictatorship Since the Second World War the Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa have undergone a series of socio-political and economic upheavals that, whatever the political complexion of particular governments, have been broadly similar in content. These include the overthrow of the old landowning and politically dominant classes (or the expulsion of the European settlers, in the case of North Africa) and their replacement by social strata drawn largely from the ranks of the lower middle classes and the petty bourgeoisie; the dismantling of the political systems installed by the British or French and their replacement by one party systems that are often forms of military dictatorship; a growing concentration of economic activity in the hands of the state, or more accurately in the hands of the ruling party or the clique which dominates it, and the commitment of the state itself to ‘development’, however this conceptmay be defined by particular regimes. In broad outline, allowing for some local variations, particularly in the Arabian peninsula where the old social classes often managed to absorb and incorporate some of the social groups formerly excluded from power, most of these phenomena can be found in all the states between Morocco and Iraq... | |||||
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