Argentina in the Global Middle East
Argentina in the Global Middle East

Author: Lily Pearl Balloffet

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2020-06-16

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 150361302X

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Argentina lies at the heart of the American hemisphere's history of global migration booms of the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century: by 1910, one of every three Argentine residents was an immigrant—twice the demographic impact that the United States experienced in the boom period. In this context, some one hundred and forty thousand Ottoman Syrians came to Argentina prior to World War I, and over the following decades Middle Eastern communities, institutions, and businesses dotted the landscape of Argentina from bustling Buenos Aires to Argentina's most remote frontiers. Argentina in the Global Middle East connects modern Latin American and Middle Eastern history through their shared links to global migration systems. By following the mobile lives of individuals with roots in the Levantine Middle East, Lily Pearl Balloffet sheds light on the intersections of ethnicity, migrant–homeland ties, and international relations. Ranging from the nineteenth century boom in transoceanic migration to twenty-first century dynamics of large-scale migration and displacement in the Arabic-speaking Eastern Mediterranean, this book considers key themes such as cultural production, philanthropy, anti-imperial activism, and financial networks over the course of several generations of this diasporic community. Balloffet's study situates this transregional history of Argentina and the Middle East within a larger story of South-South alliances, solidarities, and exchanges.

Latin American Relations with the Middle East
Latin American Relations with the Middle East

Author: Marta Tawil Kuri

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-03-29

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1000570053

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Latin American Relations with the Middle East surveys the dealings of ten Latin American and Caribbean states – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Peru, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela – with the Middle East. This volume examins these states' external behavior at both an empirical and conceptual level. Empirically, authors seek to examine Latin American and Caribbean foreign policies towards the Middle East in four dimensions: diplomatic attention; trade and investment (including the energy issue); development cooperation; security matters/intelligence, and relationship with multilateralism (Iran, Palestine, and Syria). Case studies are selectively deployed to observe the influence of unfavorable circumstances that have increased since 2015, such as domestic turmoil, wars, economic crisis, ideological bias, and international constraints. Conceptually, the book enhances the theoretical framework for understanding Southern countries’ foreign policies, through fomenting dialogue with Latin American and Caribbean regional literature on foreign policy. Authors inquire about how decision-making processes occur, and uncover how influential actors help to test the main hypotheses of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). Forging essential new paths of inquiry, this book is a must read for researchers of International Relations, Foreign Policy, South-South Relations, Latin American Politics, and Middle Eastern Politics.

The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World
The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World

Author: Cyrus Schayegh

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2017-08-28

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 0674981103

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In The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, Cyrus Schayegh takes up a fundamental problem historians face: how to make sense of the spatial layeredness of the past. He argues that the modern world’s ultimate socio-spatial feature was not the oft-studied processes of globalization or state formation or urbanization. Rather, it was fast-paced, mutually transformative intertwinements of cities, regions, states, and global circuits, a bundle of processes he calls transpatialization. To make this case, Schayegh’s study pivots around Greater Syria (Bilad al-Sham in Arabic), which is roughly coextensive with present-day Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine. From this region, Schayegh looks beyond, to imperial and global connections, diaspora communities, and neighboring Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey. And he peers deeply into Bilad al-Sham: at cities and their ties, and at global economic forces, the Ottoman and European empire-states, and the post-Ottoman nation-states at work within the region. He shows how diverse socio-spatial intertwinements unfolded in tandem during a transformative stretch of time, the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, and concludes with a postscript covering the 1940s to 2010s.

More Argentine Than You
More Argentine Than You

Author: Steven Hyland Jr.

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0826358780

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Whether in search of adventure and opportunity or fleeing poverty and violence, millions of people migrated to Argentina in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the late 1920s Arabic speakers were one of the country’s largest immigrant groups. This book explores their experience, which was quite different from the danger and deprivation faced by twenty-first-century immigrants from the Middle East. Hyland shows how Syrians and Lebanese, Christians, Jews, and Muslims adapted to local social and political conditions, entered labor markets, established community institutions, raised families, and attempted to pursue their individual dreams and community goals. By showing how societies can come to terms with new arrivals and their descendants, Hyland addresses notions of belonging and acceptance, of integration and opportunity. He tells a story of immigrants and a story of Argentina that is at once timely and timeless.

Mahjar Maps
Mahjar Maps

Author: Lily Graessle Balloffet

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781339259895

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This dissertation is a transregional study of Middle Eastern immigrants and their descendants in Argentina from the turn of the century through World War II and the rise of mass poltics under Juan Domingo Perón. It analyzes the ways in which the different diasporic nodes of the Arab Diaspora (Mahjar) were connected with one another across the provinces in a network of capital flows, as well as political and intellectual exchange. This Argentine-Arab network was itself a major contributor to the larger transnational public sphere of the Arab Diaspora. The work's earlier chapters trace the development of the Mahjar network in Argentina beginning with the first generation of door-to-door Arab peddlers in the first decades of the twentieth century. The project goes on to elucidate ways in which discrete subgroups within this ethnic community (such as artists and philanthropists) capitalized on the networks built by their itinerant merchant forebears as they looked to promote and advance their own projects. The final three chapters assert that by the 1940s, various individuals from this ethnic community had risen to the level of self-appointed interlocutors and cultural translators between the governments of Argentina, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. The dissertation concludes in the late 1950s - an era in which both members of the Arab Diaspora, as well as the Argentine state, expressed a heightened interest in strengthening ties to the Arabic-speaking Eastern Mediterranean.

A Tale of Four Worlds
A Tale of Four Worlds

Author: David Ottaway

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0190061715

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About the separate trajectories of the Levant, the Gulf, Egypt and the Maghreb after the Arab Spring uprisings

Latin American Foreign Policies towards the Middle East
Latin American Foreign Policies towards the Middle East

Author: Marta Tawil Kuri

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-23

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1137599391

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This volume surveys the interplay between state and non-state actors in Latin American foreign policies and attitudes towards the Middle East in the twenty-first century. How will domestic instability and international tensions affect the choices and behavior of Latin American countries towards the Arab world? The chapters here offer insight into this and similar questions, as well as a comparative value in analyzing countries beyond those specifically discussed. Common topics in policy making are considered–namely, Israel and Palestine, Iran, the Gulf countries, and the Arab "Spring”–as authors from distinct disciplines examine the crucial relation between ends and means on the one hand, and foreign policy actions and context on the other.

The Middle East and Brazil
The Middle East and Brazil

Author: Paul Amar

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0253014964

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Connections between Brazil and the Middle East have a long history, but the importance of these interactions has been heightened in recent years by the rise of Brazil as a champion of the global south, mass mobilizations in the Arab world and South America, and the cultural renaissance of Afro-descendant Muslims and Arab ethnic identities in the Americas. This groundbreaking collection traces the links between these two regions, describes the emergence of new South-South solidarities, and offers new methodologies for the study of transnationalism, global culture, and international relations.

The International Monetary Fund and Latin America
The International Monetary Fund and Latin America

Author: Claudia Kedar

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1439909113

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has played a critical role in the global economy since the postwar era. But, claims Claudia Kedar, behind the strictly economic aspects of the IMF’s intervention, there are influential interactions between IMF technocrats and local economists—even when countries are not borrowing money. In The International Monetary Fund and Latin America, Kedar seeks to expose the motivations and constraints of the operations of both the IMF and borrowers. With access to never-before-seen archive materials, Kedar reveals both the routine and behind-the-scenes practices that have depicted International Monetary Fund–Latin American relations in general and the asymmetrical IMF-Argentina relations in particular. Kedar also analyzes the “routine of dependency” that characterizes IMF-borrower relations with several Latin American countries such as Chile, Peru, and Brazil. The International Monetary Fund and Latin America shows how debtor countries have adopted IMF’s policies during past decades and why Latin American leaders today largely refrain from knocking at the IMF’s doors again.