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- The Frontier of Loyalty: Political Exiles in the Age of the Nation-State
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
summary
Paperback edition of the pathbreaking book on the role of exiles in international relations, with a new foreword (including material on the war in Iraq).
"In a world increasingly shaped by transnational organizations and processes, this is a timely and welcome subject, and Yossi Shain provides an informative overview."
--Rogers Brubaker, Harvard University, in The American Journal of Sociology
"Engrossing."
--International Affairs
"Mr. Shain is at his best stitching together information that hitherto had not been systematically related to analytical themes. . . . A major contribution to understanding the patterns and complexities of the politics of those at home abroad."
--International Migration Review
"The Frontier of Loyalty is the first comprehensive and theoretically oriented study of exile politics; the types of exile activity; the relation to both the home and host governments; and the difficulties and ambiguities of exile politics, particularly the struggle for legitimacy as spokesman for the opposition at home and for recognition from the outside."
--- Juan J. Linz, Yale University
"An ingenious and sensitive analysis of political exiles as 'voice from without,' which contributes to our understanding of the transnational character of contemporary politics."
--- Aristide R. Zolberg, New School for Social Research
"Drawing upon a wide literature on contemporary political exiles, Yossi Shain presents a sophisticated, learned and sensible survey of their place in political life today. More important, his meditation on the role of exiles proves such essential political categories as legitimacy,
national loyalty, and opposition in the modern state. One test of any work of scholarship is whether it enhances our understanding of concepts that we have previously taken for granted. By this measure, Shain's book passes with flying colors."
--- Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto
"In a world increasingly shaped by transnational organizations and processes, this is a timely and welcome subject, and Yossi Shain provides an informative overview."
--Rogers Brubaker, Harvard University, in The American Journal of Sociology
"Engrossing."
--International Affairs
"Mr. Shain is at his best stitching together information that hitherto had not been systematically related to analytical themes. . . . A major contribution to understanding the patterns and complexities of the politics of those at home abroad."
--International Migration Review
"The Frontier of Loyalty is the first comprehensive and theoretically oriented study of exile politics; the types of exile activity; the relation to both the home and host governments; and the difficulties and ambiguities of exile politics, particularly the struggle for legitimacy as spokesman for the opposition at home and for recognition from the outside."
--- Juan J. Linz, Yale University
"An ingenious and sensitive analysis of political exiles as 'voice from without,' which contributes to our understanding of the transnational character of contemporary politics."
--- Aristide R. Zolberg, New School for Social Research
"Drawing upon a wide literature on contemporary political exiles, Yossi Shain presents a sophisticated, learned and sensible survey of their place in political life today. More important, his meditation on the role of exiles proves such essential political categories as legitimacy,
national loyalty, and opposition in the modern state. One test of any work of scholarship is whether it enhances our understanding of concepts that we have previously taken for granted. By this measure, Shain's book passes with flying colors."
--- Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- Who Is an Exile?
- pp. 7-12
- Chapter One: Who Represents the Nation's Will?
- Chapter Two: Exile Organizations: Competing Claims to Represent the National Interest from Abroad
- The Role of Origin
- pp. 30-31
- The Validation of Claims to Power
- pp. 31-33
- Chapter Three: The Politics of Schism
- Autonomy and Identity
- pp. 39-41
- Exile Coalitions
- pp. 41-43
- Ideological Purity
- pp. 43-45
- The Insider-Outsider Dilemma
- pp. 45-46
- Foreign Intervention
- pp. 46-49
- Chapter Four: Political Exiles and the Diaspora
- National Diaspora
- pp. 51-56
- The Incentives for Mobilization
- pp. 56-62
- The Case of the Russian Diaspora
- pp. 62-70
- The Case of the Spanish Republicans
- pp. 70-76
- Chapter Five: Political Exiles and the Domestic Opposition
- Exiles and Hegemonic Home Regimes
- pp. 83-86
- Mixed Regime or Pluralistic Hegemony
- pp. 86-88
- Exile-Insider Relations over Time
- pp. 92-94
- Pragmatism in Exile Politics
- pp. 97-109
- Chapter Six: Recognition in the International Community
- Patterns of International Recognition
- pp. 110-109
- Governments-in-Exile
- pp. 113-115
- National Exile Committees
- pp. 116-117
- Rationales for Support by Other Nations
- pp. 118-119
- Relations with the Host State
- pp. 119-124
- Exile Diplomacy: the Politics of Image
- pp. 124-127
- Chapter Eight: Counterexile Strategies by the Home Regime
- Denationalization and Statelessness
- pp. 147-153
- Diplomatic Pressures on the Host Government
- pp. 155-157
- Likelihood of the Use of Antiexile Measures
- pp. 161-162
- Conclusion
- The Moving Frontier of National Loyalty
- pp. 163-168
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472026128
Related ISBN(s)
9780472030422
MARC Record
OCLC
615635630
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2012-02-08
Language
English
Open Access
No