Hezbollah : mobilisation and power / Aurélie Daher ; translation by H.W. Randolph.
By: Daher, Aurélie [author.]
Contributor(s): Randolph, Henry W [translator.]Language: English Original language: French Publisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2024Description: 428 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781911723448Uniform titles: Hezbollah. English Subject(s): Hizballah (Lebanon) | Islam and politics -- Lebanon | Lebanon -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 324.25692082 Summary: "Almost forty years after its foundation, Hezbollah remains an enigma. Is it an Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national resistance ever to have defeated Tel Aviv’s troops? Should we look at it as a patriotic and respectable party or a fascist network at the centre of Lebanese political life? Hezbollah intrigues all the more for the difficulty involved in studying it. Its weakening, if not demise, has been announced many times since its inception in the early 1980s. But the fact is that Hezbollah has never stopped growing in power, on the national stage as well as in a regional context. This book has three purposes. It first gives a clear definition of Hezbollah, presenting a thorough history of the party, describing its established internal structure, and the scope of its social and political action. It then explains the evolution of the party’s mobilisation. Finally, it illustrates another path, political but mainly identity-related — that of the Shiite community, today the main constituent of Lebanese society. This rigorous and richly documented study, drawing on primary sources and hundreds of interviews with members, executives and officials of the party, unveils new aspects of this organisation, of the ‘Hezbollah phenomenon’ and of Lebanese politics at the turn of the twenty-first century."-- Taken from book-cover.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 324.25692082 DAH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 023598 |
"Originally published in French as 'Le Hezbollah, Mobilisation, et Pouvoir' by Presses Universitaires de France in 2014." Taken from titlepage verso.
This translation originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
"Almost forty years after its foundation, Hezbollah remains an enigma. Is it an Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national resistance ever to have defeated Tel Aviv’s troops? Should we look at it as a patriotic and respectable party or a fascist network at the centre of Lebanese political life? Hezbollah intrigues all the more for the difficulty involved in studying it. Its weakening, if not demise, has been announced many times since its inception in the early 1980s. But the fact is that Hezbollah has never stopped growing in power, on the national stage as well as in a regional context. This book has three purposes. It first gives a clear definition of Hezbollah, presenting a thorough history of the party, describing its established internal structure, and the scope of its social and political action. It then explains the evolution of the party’s mobilisation. Finally, it illustrates another path, political but mainly identity-related — that of the Shiite community, today the main constituent of Lebanese society. This rigorous and richly documented study, drawing on primary sources and hundreds of interviews with members, executives and officials of the party, unveils new aspects of this organisation, of the ‘Hezbollah phenomenon’ and of Lebanese politics at the turn of the twenty-first century."-- Taken from book-cover.