State-Building,Political Culture,and Political Crisis:A Three-Dimensional Consideration of Political Modernization in Middle East Countries
The modernization of the Middle East countries has unique characteristics in the process of world modernization.From the three dimensions of state-building,political culture,and political crisis,we can explore the historical context,cultural mechanisms,and challenges of the political modernization of Middle Eastern countries.After going through the preliminary preparations,logical starting points and development dilemmas of state-building,the Middle Eastern countries began the process of initiating,evolving and exploring the political modernization.In this process,the traditional political culture with Islamic political culture,strongman political culture,and tribalism political culture as the main contents has always been the vane of influencing the political modernization of Middle Eastern countries,while the modern political culture with Arab nationalism,Arab socialism,and Islam centrism as the main contents reflects the"barometer"of the quality and level of the political modernization of Middle Eastern countries.The political modernization of Middle Eastern countries faces six crises and challenges,including national identity,political integration,policy implementation,popular participation,political distribution,and political legitimacy.Therefore,only by breaking out of the"stereotypes"of the Western political model and basing themselves on their own national conditions and public opinion will the Middle Eastern countries explore unique path of political modernization and development.
political modernizationMiddle Eaststate-buildingpolitical culturepolitical crisis
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