Rethinking Hizballah: Legitimacy, Authority, Violence
| By: | Muller, Benjamin J, Dr |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754679660 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409484882 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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International Relations scholarship posits that legitimacy, authority and violence are attributes of states. However, groups like Hizballah clearly challenge this framing of global politics through its continued ability to exercise violence in the regional arena. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of state-society relations in Lebanon, this book presents a lucid examination of the socio-political conditions that gave rise to the Lebanese movement Hizballah from 1982 until the present.
Framing and analysing Hizballah through the perspective of the 'resistance society'