5 THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION AND NATION BUILDING

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Illustrated Media, the Built Environment and Identity Politics in Fin-de-siècle Catalonia: Printing Images, Making the Nation

Cultural History ◽

10.3366/cult.2015.0090 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 113-135

Author(s):

Lucila Mallart

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Built Environment ◽

Identity Politics ◽

Nation Building ◽

Constitutive Relationship ◽

Fin De Siecle ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Fin De Siècle ◽

Late Nineteenth

This article explores the role of visuality in the identity politics of fin-de-siècle Catalonia. It engages with the recent reevaluation of the visual, both as a source for the history of modern nation-building, and as a constitutive element in the emergence of civic identities in the liberal urban environment. In doing so, it offers a reading of the mutually constitutive relationship of the built environment and the print media in late-nineteenth century Catalonia, and explores the role of this relation as the mechanism by which the so-called ‘imagined communities’ come to exist. Engaging with debates on urban planning and educational policies, it challenges established views on the interplay between tradition and modernity in modern nation-building, and reveals long-term connections between late-nineteenth-century imaginaries and early-twentieth-century beliefs and practices.

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The United States and the Iranian Nuclear Programme

10.3366/edinburgh/9780748682638.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Steven Hurst

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Decision Making ◽

Domestic Politics ◽

The United States ◽

Nixon Administration ◽

Comprehensive Plan ◽

The Us ◽

Nuclear Issue ◽

The Relationship

The United States, Iran and the Bomb provides the first comprehensive analysis of the US-Iranian nuclear relationship from its origins through to the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015. Starting with the Nixon administration in the 1970s, it analyses the policies of successive US administrations toward the Iranian nuclear programme. Emphasizing the centrality of domestic politics to decision-making on both sides, it offers both an explanation of the evolution of the relationship and a critique of successive US administrations' efforts to halt the Iranian nuclear programme, with neither coercive measures nor inducements effectively applied. The book further argues that factional politics inside Iran played a crucial role in Iranian nuclear decision-making and that American policy tended to reinforce the position of Iranian hardliners and undermine that of those who were prepared to compromise on the nuclear issue. In the final chapter it demonstrates how President Obama's alterations to American strategy, accompanied by shifts in Iranian domestic politics, finally brought about the signing of the JCPOA in 2015.

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Ethnocratic Policies and Indigenous Resistance: Bedounin Arabs and the Israeli Settler State

Holy Land Studies ◽

10.3366/hls.2003.0002 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 161-191 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Oren Yiftachel

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Nation Building ◽

Arab Population ◽

Land Planning ◽

Indigenous Resistance ◽

Development Policies ◽

Economic Strategies ◽

Basic Services ◽

The Impact ◽

Structural Conflict

This article examines the evolving relations between Israel and the indigenous Bedouin Arab population of the southern Beer-Sheba region. It begins with a discussion of theoretical aspects, highlighting a structural conflict embedded in the ‘ethnocratic’ nature of nation-building typical of ‘pure’ settler states, such as Israel. The place of the Bedouin Arab community is then analyzed, focusing on the impact of one of Israel's central policies—the Judaization of territory. The study traces the various legal, planning and economic strategies of Judaizing contested lands in the study area. These have included the nationalization of Arab land, the pervasive establishment of Jewish settlements, the forced urbanization of the Bedouin Arabs, and the denial of basic services to Bedouins who refuse to urbanize. However, the analysis also finds a growing awareness among indigenous Arabs of their being discriminated against on ethnic grounds, and the emergence of effective resistance. In recent years, this has resulted in a deadlock between state authorities and the indigenous peoples. The case of the Bedouin Arabs demonstrates that the ethnocentric settler state is weakening and fragmenting, partially at least, due to its own expansionist land, planning and development policies.

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