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• W1507563153 abstract "Hizbullah's Identity Construction, by Joseph Alagha. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011. 308 pages. $29.95 paper. Reviewed by Bashir Saade There is so much to account for in Alagha's new book that it is impossible to do it justice in such a short review. The greatest challenge in reviewing Alagha's Hizbullah's Identity Construction is that while reading the text one struggles - ultimately in vain - to identify a sound argument that connects the various parts of the book. Secondly, despite the ambitious task of describing as a changing organization, the material presented is poor, flimsy, and used inconsistently. In Alagha's first book, The Shifts in Hizbullah's Ideology (2006), he argues that the party moved away from a radical political agenda during the 1980s to a more pragmatic, compromising one when it decided to engage in Lebanese local politics. The alleged novelty of Alagha's argument was that this shiftwas ideological, involving a transformation in the worldview of the party. Hizbullah's Identity Construction expands on this idea by providing the reader with new theoretical formulations and tries to account for the different actions undertaken by since the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005. But the negligent theoretical formulation of the object of study and inconsistent follow-up of that initial argumentation makes Alagha's text read like a hectic journalistic account of the political events faced by in the last five years, interrupted from time to time with hasty personal interpretations. And because since the assassination of PM Hariri Lebanon has witnessed the most intense period of ups and downs in its history, Alagha fills pages recounting endless transactions between the different political protagonists (coalitions that will come to be labeled as March 14 and March 8) and their various shifts in alliances, often without even relating matters to Hizbullah, least of all to his alleged central thesis, namely the identity of Hizbullah. In his first book, the principal argument is exthat possesses a coherent at all times that is shifting from one position (say being radical, revolutionary, or against the Lebanese political regime) to another (embracing the confessional system as a working alternative) at a particular point in time. However, the real question remains the nature of the change and precisely where it is located - questions that Alagha leaves unanswered. In Hizbullah's Identity Construction, Alagha refreshes his methodology by claiming to adopt a social constructivist point of view but he neither adequately (see pp. 24- 25) defines these terms nor conforms to the social constructivist model. Furthermore, it is unclear even how Alagha understands terms such as ideology and identity, as his attempts to explicate terms are riddled with borrowed definitions and jargon (pp. 25-26). Alagha repeatedly makes claims without expanding his argument, which also remains unclear because of his cryptic use of language. For example, he states that: Hizbullah shifted from a to a flexible (...) argued that the as a socially constructed phenomenon is flexible and can account for all the complexities of modern life (p.117). These statements are not sourced, nor are jihadi perspective or shari'a perspective explained. The point should be that does not hold a concrete wholly coherent but rather that ideological constructions come to inform and direct decisions in one direction or another. …" @default.
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