military

Azmi Bishara's book "The Army and Political Power in the Arab Context: Theoretical Problems" is a qualitative addition to the Arab library regarding the relationship between the army and politics. This review is not a presentation of the ideas of the book, which is a necessary task, and authors and sites addressed it, but a critical reading of it...

This attempt aims to critique – critique here being a synonym for theory. Criticism is not based on what ought to be, but on what exists in the relationship between army and politics, not by describing it as wrong, or a symptom of the Arab affliction, but as the product of historical conditions, social and economic structures, and culture.