Egypt, Iran, and the Hizbullah Cell: Using Sectarianism to “De-Arabize” and Regionalize Threats to National Interests

Monier, Elizabeth

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“…Such literature no longer captures the post-2011 dynamics in the Middle East which has witnessed the rise of 'regional sectarianism' (Philipps, 2014, 151). Quasi-homogeneous states such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt have endorsed sectarian practices and discourses (Monier 2015). Furthermore, nonstate actors have had to position themselves vis-à-vis the regional wave of sectarianism.…”

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Casting the Other as an existential threat: The securitisation of sectarianism in the international relations of the Syria crisis

Darwich¹,

Fakhoury²

2016

Global Discourse

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