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Identity (Stephen Stetter (2008) (Focus on identity risks an explicit or…
Identity
Stephen Stetter (2008)
Indisputable centrality of identity-related norms and values in shaping both interests of key political actors and the wider structures of conflict and cooperation in the region
Powerful state elites engineer, use and manipulate such identities in order to secure their political survival
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Focus on identity risks an explicit or implicit reification of the ME as a civilizational universe of its own characterized by a particularistic and idiosyncratic identities and cultures
These identities then become the main factor of explanation for the key dynamics of the regional politics
Religion & Culture are often referred to in order to explain and/or justify political attitudes in the MENA region
Authoritarianism and the compatibility or not of Islam with democracy and a universal definition of human rights are said to be due to a supposed identity and culture in the region
State identities have constantly been challenged by transnational identities, such as Pan-Arabism and Pan-Islamism, as well as by communal allegiances, such as to a clan, tribe or region
Imperialism's arbitrary imposition of state boundaries produced a substantial incongruence between territory and identity, with the result that loyalty to the state was contested by substate and supra-state identities
Relevant ideas, norms & identities in the region
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Entity that refers to the history, common memory, territorial place and culture of a people
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Alexander Wendt: identities express a performative and constitutive relation between the "self" and the "other"