La organización y transformación de las redes de poder en Israel y su impacto en la estructura internacionalun análisis de la aplicabilidad del modelo IEMP de Michael Mann

Abstract

This thesis addresses the applicability of Michael Mann’s IEMP (ideological, economic, military, and political) model of the sources of social power to Israel as a case study. Focusing on his idea of the polymorphous state, it identifies the transnational origins of Zionism, as well as the central stages of the state’s crystallization to conclude that its consolidation in a nationalist-capitalist-militarist state, is the product of a dialectic between agents and structures which take decisions, organize, and reorganize, influenced by the power’s macrostructures of its time. Zionism crystalized in the Middle East in the form of a state during the European colonialist period, whereas at a later stage, it will do so during the process of decolonization and the Cold War. In both periods it will start and harden a political conflict with both the Palestinian people and the Arab neighboring states, which will cause the intertwining of its history and the history of its five wars, provoking changes in each state’s both at the domestic and international structures, demonstrating the autonomous power of the state and its ability to avoid adjusting to adaptative strategies. We will demonstrate that the autonomous power of the state doesn’t steam solely from its military superiority, but rather from its infrastructural power and its capacity to integrate within society, changing its trajectory and nature in the face of new opportunities and culminating in the formation of a political entity based on two types of territorial dominance: one democratic and another despotic, which we shall call proxysoterocratic empire.