The Re-Imagination of the Middle East

Political and Academic Frontiers (1991 Presidential Address)

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ID11568024
AuthorsDale F Eickelman (Dartmouth Hospital, corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume26
Issue1
Pages3-12
Publication date1992-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMiddle East Studies Association Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-3184 • E-ISSN: 2329-3233
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0026318400025013
OpenAlexW2586179994
LanguageEN
References cited17

The world is now undergoing a transformation as profound as that experienced with the rise of the territorial state system after the religious wars of Europe’s feudal period. Modern technology in defense and communications and “emerging trans-state patterns of commerce, politics, and cultural life” are rendering traditional notions of “frontier” obsolete. Dispersed transnational communities—Sikhs in Canada, Muslims in Britain, Germany, France, and the U.S.—sectarian and ethnic militias sustained by emigré and foreign funds, and transnational banking, commercial, religious, and intellectual links often opaque to state authorities may not threaten the existence of the nation-state everywhere, but they serve as a poignant reminder that nation-states are not the only significant political actors in the late twentieth century

Economic history · Ethnic group · Feudalism · Frontier · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Presidential address · Sociology · State (computer science · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Public Administration · Turkey's Politics and Society

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