Hurst, 2021. — 216 p. A proud, angry, and hopeful rallying cry for democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa. Baghdadi and Gatnash provide an excellent primer on the history of the region, firmly rooting its current woes in the colonial experience. Why is the Middle East a crisis factory, and how can it be fixed? What does the future look like for its 500...
Routledge, 2017. — 288 p. This book, first published in 1991, examines in detail superpower-client relations in the Middle East. The Middle East, with its protracted and seemingly insoluble conflict and complex patterns of loyalty and hostility, is the ideal setting for the study of such relationships. Using the USSR and Syria, and the USA and Israel as case studies, this book...
HarperCollins, 2022. — 304 p. The Pashtuns are perhaps the largest ethnic group in the world without a country of their own. They inhabit a continuous stretch of land from the Hindu Kush to the Indus, across Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan used the Pashtun-dominated areas in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as a launching pad against the Soviet occupation of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 301 p. International Society and the Middle East brings together a distinguished cast of theorists and Middle East experts to provide a comprehensive overview of the region's history and how its traditions have mixed, often uncomfortably, with the political structures imposed by the expansion of Western international society. This is the sort of book...
Routledge, 2011. — 432 p. A longtime bestseller, Politics and Change in the Middle East employs a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensively and evenhandedly study the region’s past, present, and future. Through politics, economics, culture, and history, this text offers a rugged analytical framework that familiarizes students with the Middle East and helps them to...
Manchester University Press, 2023. — 320 p. The year 1973 is usually considered the great equalizer among major oil producers. But the 'Visions' strategies of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a so-called middle power and small state in the Middle East regional system, point to broadening economic relations as a great enhancer of economic power. This book explores the...
5th ed. — Nicholas Brealey, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0-98395-580-1. For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people, and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work as the essential guide to comprehending an immensely varied culture. Covering all aspects of Arab life, from religion and society to social norms and communication styles, this...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. — 152 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-27885-4. This book examines some of the driving forces of change in the Middle East and aims to provide a regional outlook. The political and social events of the past years have significantly affected the regional structure across the Middle East, evident in socio-economic systems, security framework, and the balance of...
Routledge, 1992. — 252 p. Reconstruction and Regional Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf provides a detailed analysis of the social, political, and economic patterns of interaction between Gulf states. The authors provide a consideration of the role of the superpowers in the region's political discourse, and of religion as an agent for change. Informative and accessible, this study...
Routledge, 2019. — 456 p. This handbook examines the regional and international dynamics of the Middle East. It challenges the state-society dichotomy to make sense of decision-making and behavior by ruling regimes. The 33 chapter authors include the world’s leading scholars of the Middle East and International Relations (IR) to make sense of the region. This synthesis of area...
University of California Press, 2013. — 536 p. Since it was first published in 2006, this concise overview of the making of the contemporary Middle East has become essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region. Writing for a wide audience, Mehran Kamrava takes us from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to today,...
Springer International Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 182 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-76815-1, 978-3-319-76816-8 During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership. Writings on subjects dealing with politics, globalization, and social matters gained are well-received. While mapping the genre, this monograph shows literary...
6th Ed. — Nicholas Brealey, 2018. — 326 p. — ISBN10: 1473669979, ISBN13: 978-1473669970. For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work as the essential guide to comprehending an immensely varied culture. Covering all aspects of Arab life, from religion and society to social norms and...
Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs, 2011. — 54 p. Pakistan’s Strategic Challenges: Traditional Threats and New Adversaries External Threats, Inconsistent Partners Internal Threats A Short History of Pakistan’s Military Indian Partition, Kashmir, and the Use of Proxies US Military Aid, the First Military Regime, and the 1965 War The 1971 War and a Return to...
London; Europa Publications, 2004. — 616 p. This reference volume is the definitive guide to the economics and politics of the Middle East. It provides clear definitions detailing terms, concepts, names and organizations used in relation to current economic or political affairs in the Middle East. Entries define, explain and give further relevant information on countries,...
Kemalism, the dominant ideology in Turkey, is going through crisis during the last decades. Its basic principles are being challenged by the Kurdish issue, the rise of political Islam and the pressure for modernization. Under the changing international and domestic reality kemalism is unable to produce solutions to problems and to provide Turkish citizens with a future...
Islamabad Policy Institute Research, 2016. — 152 p. Afghanistan is a country at the crossroads of change. Change, that can either take it out of its past and present existential crisis towards wholeness; or push it towards abysmal chaos. What the country and its people need more than anything else in the days and years ahead is decisive leadership, whether from the world’s...
Washington: Center for International Policy, 2009. — 78 p. The Center for International Policy, with support from the Ploughshares Fund, sponsored an expert study on "Ethnic Minorities and the Future of Pakistan" to assess the grievances of the minorities, the posture of the Pakistan central government toward them, past and present, and the impact of U.S. policies on how...
Λευκωσία: Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Ανθρωπιστικών Επιστημών, 2011. — 377 σ. Το πρώτο μέρος της εργασίας ασχολείται με το ζήτημα της τουρκικής αστικής τάξης από την κατάρρευση της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας μέχρι και το τέλος της δεκαετίας του 1980. Καταπιάνεται με την παρουσίαση της πολιτικής που ακολούθησε το κεμαλικό κράτος και την επιλογή του να ενδυναμώσει τα τμήματα εκείνα...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 304 p. Islam, Democracy, and Turkey’s Secular State. Iran: Classical Themes and Contemporary Challenges. Pakistan: A Work in Progress. Indonesia: From Military Rule to Democracy. Senegal: Democracy and the Postcolonial State. Tunisia: From Revolution to Republic. Egypt: From Democratization to the Restoration of Authoritarianism.
NY: Public Affairs, 2011. — 592 p. In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term...
OBİV, İstanbul, 2005, 153 p. The Foundation of Middle East and Balkan Studies with the Yıldız Technical University Department of Political Science and International Relations organized a conference under the title of New Iraq on 22 March 2005. The participants who are all experts in their fields have come together at this very important conference, so as to discuss the future...