文档介绍：Structuring Conflict in the Arab World
Incumbents, Opponents, and Institutions
This book examines how ruling elites manage and manipulate their
political opposition in the Middle East. In contrast to discussions of
government–opposition relations that focus on how rulers either pun-
ish orco-opt opponents, this book focuses on the effect of institutional
rules governing the opposition. It argues that rules determining who is
and is not allowed to participate in the formal political arena affect not
only the relationships between opponents and the state, but also those
between various opposition groups. This produces different dynamics
of opposition during prolonged economic crises. It also shapes the in-
formal strategies that ruling elites use toward opponents. The argument
is presented using a formal model of government–opposition relations.
It is demonstrated in the cases of Egypt under Presidents Nasir, Sadat,
and Mubarak; Jordan under King Husayn; and o under King
Hasan II.
Ellen Lust-Okar is an assistant professor in the Department of Political
Science at Yale University. She received her . in Middle Eastern stud-
ies and her . in political science from the University of Michigan.
She has studied and conducted research in Jordan, o, Israel,
Palestine, and Syria, and her work examining the relationships between
states and opposition has appeared parative Politics, Compara-
tive Political Studies, the International Journal of Middle East Studies,
Middle Eastern Studies, and other volumes. She is currently working
on a second manuscript, Linking Domestic and International Conflict:
The Case of Middle East Rivalries, with Paul Huth at the University of
Michigan.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been
the anization of hatreds.
– Henry Brooks Adams
Structuring Conflict in the Arab World
Incumbents, Opponents, and Institutions
ELLEN LUST-OKAR
Yale University
Cambridge, New