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Exploring the political economy of development and democracy in the Middle East, this book provides new insight into the effects of external initiatives for the support of good governance in Arab states, the impact of transnational Islamist networks on democratization in the Middle East, and the role of new satellite broadcasting in the Arab world.

1. Iraqi Kurdistan's Statehood Aspirations and Non-Kurdish Actors: The Case of Turkomans -- 2. Iraqi Kurdistan's Statehood Aspirations and Non-Kurdish Actors: The Case of Turkomans -- 3. Human Security versus National Security and the Function of Nationalism as 'Security-Provider': An Analysis of the Kurds and the Turkish State -- 4. Ideological Distance, Nationalist Projects, and Kurdish Extra- and Cross-Communal Relations -- 5. Statehood, autonomy or unitary coexistence? A comparative analysis of how Kurdish groups approach the idea of self-determination -- Part III: Interests -- 6. Ethnic Capital Across Borders and Regional Development: A Comparative Analysis of Kurds in the Middle East -- 7. In Search of Tomorrow: Speculation, Futures, and Capitalism in Iraqi Kurdistan -- 8. Explaining Variation in Political Gains: The Case of Iranian Kurdistan -- Conclusion

The Middle East field is in a crisis within the broader discipline of political science. A review of major departments of political science reveals surprisingly few that have full professors with the politics of the Middle East as their primary research focus. This lacuna exists at such universities as Harvard, Yale, Michigan, Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, Chicago, Ohio State, Emory, Brown, Dartmouth, North Carolina, Rice, Pittsburgh, Brandeis, Wisconsin, and elsewhere. Some of these departments have no Middle East faculty at all, others have denied tenure to deserving junior faculty, while still others have an interest in the region but claim to lack resources to make the necessary appointments.The situation is clearly better at institutions such as Columbia, NYU, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Johns Hopkins SAIS, Indiana, UCLA, Texas, Princeton, Georgetown, George Washington, Rutgers, and a few others. Nonetheless, there are problems here too. Some faculty are administrators and do not teach a full load. Others may be nearing retirement and are concerned that they will not be replaced by a scholar who also specializes in the Middle East. Although we can disagree about particular institutions or individuals (e.g., Is so-and-so "really" a Middle East scholar?), it is evident that this field is in danger of being marginalized both in professional recognition by the discipline as a whole, and in political science departments that may appreciate having Middle East politics courses on the books, but not the scholarship of the course instructor.Disregard for the Middle East field can be attributed to an array of political and disciplinary factors with which most of us are familiar. And one could reasonably expand the problem to include all area studies.