The Changing Ideology of Hezbollah (Middle East Today)

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Early Ideology
	Insurgency Intervention
		Decision-Making Process
		What Is the Role of Ideology Within Insurgencies?
		Insurgencies Ideologies
		Assessing Hezbollah
		From Idealism to Pragmatism
		Insurgency and Ideology Defined
	Final Word
Chapter 2: From the Outskirt to the Core: How the Shia Transformed Within the Lebanese Society
	The Birth Defects of a State
	History Walking on Two Legs
		The Radical Change
		The Palestinian Cause
	God’s Party
		The Battle for the Shia
		The Israeli Juggernaut
		Ideological Export
		Genesis
		Early Activity
		The Phantoms in the Mind
		Vali al-Faqih
		The Utopian State
		Obliterating Little Satan
		Acting on Convictions
	Marginalization and Oppression
Chapter 3: Insurgency and the Transformation of Ideology: Changes in Hezbollah’s Thoughts and Practices
	Fundamentalist Metamorphosis
		The New Aeon
		Charm Offensive
		Refashioning Islamism
		Relationship Restructuring
		Radical Twins
	The Trio
		Fighting Goliath
		Lebanon’s Baron
		The Poisonous Present
	Differentiated Choices
Chapter 4: Obliteration and Liberation Change to Deterrence: Hezbollah’s Ideological Transformation Toward Israel and the Palestine Cause
	The First Arab Victory
		Resistance Demobilization
		A Disguise of Legitimacy
		The Lost Cause
	Corresponding Miscalculation
		Israel’s New Leadership
		The Result Sheet
	Evolution in Revolutionary Ideas
		The Manifesto
		Ideological Change?
	Hezbollah Transformed
Chapter 5: From a Patron to Patronage: Hezbollah’s Support for the Syrian Regime in the Civil War
	The Revolutionary and the Revolutions
		The Ghost of the Past
		Transforming the Nefarious
	Hezbollah in Syria
		The Puppeteer
		Vestiges of Inception
		From the Covert to the Overt
	The Shrine, the Shia, and the Survival
		The Shia
		The Shrine
		The Survival
	The Derivative
		Hyper Insurgency
		Indefinite Hemorrhage
		Playing the Great Game
	Conclusion
Chapter 6: Conclusion
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Index