CARACTERISTICILE PROCESULUI DE FORMARE A STATELOR DIN ORIENTUL MIJLOCIU
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STATE FORMATION PROCESS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Summary/Abstract: The evolution of the states in the Middle East is marked by the appearance of loose entities, with political, economic, military, social and religious bodies, reproducing more or less the western-European state’s structures. The dictum of Charles Tilly (“war made states and states made wars”) doesn’t work in the case of the majority of the Arab states, which were shaped following the interests of the colonial powers and not because of the war preparations. In fact, France and Great Britain provided an inappropriate organizational “pack”, which was developed and "perfected" by the zone leaders, according to their “model” of an ultracentralized society. The power and wealth of the country have been concentrated in the hands of a person or family in an attitude of contempt and total indifference to the interests of the community. Poverty, oppression and lack of basic rights and freedoms have been the framework of the people’s evolution in this region, living at the edge of survival, which explains the violence of the democratic movements initiated in early 2011, known as the "Arab Spring".

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