Frederic Wehrey

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Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab UprisingsHardcover, 17 December 2013

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Part of Series
Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
Print Length
352 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Date Published
17 Dec 2013
ISBN-10
0231165129
ISBN-13
9780231165129

Description

One of Foreign Policy's Best Five Books of 2013, chosen by Marc Lynch of The Middle East Channel

Beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq and concluding with the aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings, Frederic M. Wehrey investigates the roots of the Shi'a-Sunni divide now dominating the Persian Gulf's political landscape. Focusing on three Gulf states affected most by sectarian tensions--Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait--Wehrey identifies the factors that have exacerbated or tempered sectarianism, including domestic political institutions, the media, clerical establishments, and the contagion effect of external regional events, such as the Iraq war, the 2006 Lebanon conflict, the Arab uprisings, and Syria's civil war.

In addition to his analysis, Wehrey builds a historical narrative of Shi'a activism in the Arab Gulf since 2003, linking regional events to the development of local Shi'a strategies and attitudes toward citizenship, political reform, and transnational identity. He finds that, while the Gulf Shi'a were inspired by their coreligionists in Iraq, Iran, and Lebanon, they ultimately pursued greater rights through a nonsectarian, nationalist approach. He also discovers that sectarianism in the region has largely been the product of the institutional weaknesses of Gulf states, leading to excessive alarm by entrenched Sunni elites and calculated attempts by regimes to discredit Shi'a political actors as proxies for Iran, Iraq, or Lebanese Hizballah. Wehrey conducts interviews with nearly every major Shi'a leader, opinion shaper, and activist in the Gulf Arab states, as well as prominent Sunni voices, and consults diverse Arabic-language sources.

Product Details

Author:
Frederic Wehrey
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
17 December 2013
Dimensions:
23.11 x 16 x 3.3 cm
ISBN-10:
0231165129
ISBN-13:
9780231165129
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
352
Weight:
589.67 gm

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