{"product_id":"book-i85c","title":"The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East","description":"The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, a highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications, a Lebanon teetering on the edge of collapse from the pressures of its huge numbers of refugees and its sect-bound political system, and the rise of a wide variety of Islamist paramilitary organizations seeking to operate outside all these states.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe region's emergence as a \"zone of violence,\" characterized by a viciously dystopian politics of identity, is a relatively recent phenomenon, developing only over the past century; but despite these shallow historical roots, the mass violence and dispossession now characterizing Syria, Lebanon, Israel\/Palestine, and Iraq have emerged as some of the twenty-first century's most intractable problems. In this study, Laura Robson uses a framework of mass violence—encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization—to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and to illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel.","brand":"Highbridge Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49351555973424,"sku":"BDi85c","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49351556006192,"sku":"ZEi85c","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49351556071728,"sku":"ZMi85c","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/i85c-cover.jpg?v=1765878740","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-i85c","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}