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Introduction -- Nature and scope of the problem -- Theoretical and developmental considerations -- Social relationships -- Stress, coping, and emotion regulation -- Psychopathology -- Assessment and treatment -- Prevention

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.

This book addresses the increasing regionalisation of urban governance and politics in an era of industrialisation, suburbanisation and welfare extension. It provides an important reassessment of the role, structure and activities of urban elites, highlighting their vitality and their interdependence and demonstrating the increasing regionalisation of municipal politics as towns sought to promote themselves, extend services and even expand physically onto a regional level. Moreover, it expl...

Introduction: The trial of Saddam -- Beginnings: The creation of modern Iraq (1916-1959) -- A presentable young man: Saddam's rise to power (1959-1979) -- The tilting game: The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) -- Halabja: The tragedy of the Kurds (1980-1988) -- Signals: the invasion of Kuwait (1988-1990) -- No exit: the Gulf War (August 1990-March 1991) -- Betrayal: the Shiite and Kurd uprisings (February 1991-April 1991) -- Embargo: the U.N. sanctions (August 6, 1990-May 22, 2003) -- The noble lie: the invasion of Iraq (January 2000-March 19, 2003) -- Full circle: the occupation (April 2003-April 2006)

This twenty-seventh volume of Research in Organizational Behavior carries forward the tradition of high-level scholarship on a broad array of organizational topics. Like many previous volumes, this collection is truly interdisciplinary, with chapters ranging from personality and decision making in organizations, to interpersonal dynamics such as helping and group process, to organizational-level analyses of legitimization and change. Each of the essays is well-reasoned, thoughtful, and provocative-- proving, once again, that the field of organizational behavior is flourishing in both its depth

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.