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The Muslim Brotherhood is the oldest and most important international Islamist group. Aside from strong organizations in Egypt, Jordan, Syria - where it provides the main opposition - and its Palestinian offshoot Hamas which rules the Gaza Strip, the Brotherhood has become active in Europe and North America

This is the first comprehensive guide to today's most important, yet least understood transnational ideology -- political Islamism. It covers the movement's diverse groups, ideas, and activities around the globe -- from political participation to revolutionary terrorism -- and responding government policies and repression

This book surveys the main conflicts and insurgencies in recent Middle East history, focusing mainly on the period since the 1980s and taking a historical-analytical approach.

Contents -- Introduction -- Heartbreak and hope -- "Better Saddam's hell than America's paradise" -- The courage of their convictions -- What's wrong with Arab society -- Whose Islam? -- America: Satan or savior? -- Israel: the great excuse -- The challenge of terrorism -- The Iraq war: aggression or liberation? -- Women's rights: a test case for reform -- A thousand and one difficulties -- Notes -- Index

Understanding anti-Americanism -- A naturally degenerate land -- The distasteful republic -- The fear of an American future -- America as a horrible fate -- Yankee go home! -- Cold war and Coca Cola -- The great Satan -- America as super-villain -- An explicable unpopularity.

This work addresses the main strategic issues in today's Persian Gulf, a region that could easily produce a crisis that would encourage international political and economic involvement. Topics discussed include: strategic balances, modernization, internal stability, and weapons of mass destruction.

The Middle East has changed clearly, substantially, and dramatically during the last decade. Yet scholarly and public understanding lags far behind these events. This book explains why the previous era came to end, giving an historical and political summation of the region. Three interlinked themes are crucial to the book. First, a reinterpretation of the era of upheaval the Middle East has just passed through. During that period, many Arabs believed that some leader, country, or radical movement would unite the region, solving all its problems. Second, an evaluation of how the historical experience of the period between the 1940s and the 1990s undermined the old system, making change necessary. Third, an analysis of the region today that helps explain future developments, in what the author terms the Era of Reluctant Pragmatism, as the Middle Eastern societies decide their relationships to the West