Hizbullah's DNA and the Arab Spring
Among all the authors on the Hezbollah, you are the deepest and most complex one. I am enjoying reading you a lot and find that finally, serious and long-lasting academic work is being done on the party. Victoria Fontan Associate Professor, University for Peace. Hizbullah's identity constructio...
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New Delhi
KW Publishers in association with Calcutta University
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- A brief history
- The history of Lebanese Shiʻites and Hizbullah's anathema in the 1980s
- The religious elements in Hizbullah's ideology : differences with Sunni Islam
- Political violence : legal aspects of jihad, 9/11, and self-sacrifice
- Hizbullah's infitah ("opening up") and integration from the 1990s to the July 2006 war
- Hizbullah's hegemony from the July 2006 war to the present
- Hizbullah's clandestine conclaves, organizational structure, the 2009 manifesto, and dialogue with the west
- The polemics : a review of the literature
- Hizbullah's stance on the Arab Spring
- Chronology of events (1975-2012)
- Glossary.