2015
2015-05-22
10.17192/meta.2015.4.3529
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keine Angabe
Comparative Area Studies and Middle East Politics after the Arab Uprisings
The Arab uprisings have brought about a new wave of Middle East political science research that seeks to comparatively account for the different political trajectories in the region. In order to situate these diverse post-2011 scholarly studies, this paper introduces Comparative Area Studies (CAS) as an analytical perspective which combines the context sensitivity of area studies with the explicit and systematic use of comparisons. It finds that while intra-regional comparisons are the mainstay of political science studies of the Arab uprisings, there is also an emerging, very promising strand of cross-regional comparisons that draws on insights from, for example, the post-Soviet space or from European history. The paper concludes by evaluating the promises, risks and prospects of following a CAS perspective in the study of Middle East politics.
Cross-regional Comparisons
Comparative Area Studies
Arab Uprisings
Middle East Politics
2018-01-31
2015-05-22
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Bank
Bank, André
Cross-regional Comparisons
2015-05-22
urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2015-108-35290
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Comparative Area Studies
The Arab uprisings have brought about a new wave of Middle East political science research that seeks to comparatively account for the different political trajectories in the region. In order to situate these diverse post-2011 scholarly studies, this paper introduces Comparative Area Studies (CAS) as an analytical perspective which combines the context sensitivity of area studies with the explicit and systematic use of comparisons. It finds that while intra-regional comparisons are the mainstay of political science studies of the Arab uprisings, there is also an emerging, very promising strand of cross-regional comparisons that draws on insights from, for example, the post-Soviet space or from European history. The paper concludes by evaluating the promises, risks and prospects of following a CAS perspective in the study of Middle East politics.
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Arab Uprisings
Comparative Area Studies and Middle East Politics after the Arab Uprisings
https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2015.4.3529
Middle East Politics
2015-05-22
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2015
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Middle East - Topics + Arguments
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General history of Asia; Middle East
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