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Pensée 3: A Sectarian Middle East?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2008

Eric Davis
Eric Davis*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science and Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., USA; e-mail: [email protected]
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The problem of “Middle East exceptionalism” is perhaps nowhere as apparent as in the study of Middle East politics, particularly its purported sectarian nature. Our understanding of Middle East politics suffers less from the lack of empirical data than the poverty of the conceptual and theoretical frameworks through which it is studied. Unlike other non-Western regions, the Middle East continues to be analyzed through a conceptual prism that has changed little since the collapse of colonial rule.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , November 2008 , pp. 555 - 558
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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