Conclusion: Nation-Building and Minority Rights in the Middle East, Elizabeth Picard

Elizabeth Picard (1)

1 IREMAM - Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans

The current "minority crisis" in the Middle East can be considered an existential crisis as it tends to exclude hundreds of thousands of members of religious minorities from the public sphere and political life, while multidimensional violence force many of them to take refuge abroad. This chapter adopts a perspective of political sociology in order to shed light on the complex relation between the local political power which claims sovereignty and the exclusive use of "legitimate violence" - "the state" - on the one hand, and victimized and powerless religious communities, on the other hand.

Mots clés: elites strategies minorities citzenship

Domaines: Science politique

Elizabeth Picard. Conclusion: Nation-Building and Minority Rights in the Middle East, Elizabeth Picard. LONGVA AN & ROALD AS. Religious Minorities in the Middle East. Domination, Self-empowerment, Accommodation, Brill, pp.230-255, 2012. ⟨halshs-00715384⟩