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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Traditional Cultures of the Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization and Politics -- Chapter 2 The Foundations of Islam -- Chapter 3 The Political Legacy of Islam, 632-1800 C.E. -- Chapter 4 Western Imperialism, 1800-1914 C.E. -- Chapter 5 The Rise of the State System, 1914-1950 -- Chapter 6 The Drive for Self-Determination, 1950-1990 -- Chapter 7 Turning Points -- Chapter 8 The Politics of Religion, Culture, and Social Life -- Chapter 9 Political Elites

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Note -- Introduction -- 1 Stability and Change in Syria -- 2 The Future of Ba 'thist Iraq: Power Structure, Challenges, and Prospects -- 3 Iranian Politics Since the Gulf War -- 4 The Nine Lives of Hashemite Jordan -- 5 Regime Stability and Change in the Gulf: The Case of Saudi Arabia -- 6 The PLO and the Palestinians: A Revolution Institutionalized -- 7 Israel: Political Change in a Democratic State -- 8 Egypt's Political Order: Continuity and Challenges -- About the Contributors -- Index -- About the Book and Editor.

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of maps -- List of boxes -- 1. Historical context -- Chapter outline -- The colonial period -- Conclusion -- 2. The formation of the State of Israel -- The road to statehood -- Zionism during the Second World War -- Al-Nakba/Israeli War of Independence -- Conclusion -- 3. The Arab-Israeli wars -- The Six-Day War, 1967 -- The Yom Kippur/Ramadan War, 1973 -- The Lebanese War, 1982 -- Fighting Hizbullah, 2006 -- Conclusion -- 4. Palestinian politics -- The failure of the 'peace process' -- Background -- The first Intifada (1987) -- Hamas -- The peace process -- Palestinian political rupture, Gaza and the security wall -- Hamas and Israel -- Hamas and the Arab Spring -- The Palestinian Authority, the United Nations and the bid for statehood -- Netanyahu and Trump: the death of the peace process -- Two states or one? -- Conclusion -- 5. Pan-Arabism and Islamism -- Pan-Arabism spreads across the region -- The founding of political Islam -- Islamist political parties -- Conclusion -- 6. The Iranian Revolution and pan-Shi'ism -- The Iranian Revolution -- The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) -- Exporting the revolution: the establishment of Hizbullah -- Conclusion -- 7. Playground of the superpowers -- The Suez War -- Dictators and despots -- The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan -- Regional reactions -- The role of the United States -- Regional and global implications of the Afghan conflict -- Conclusion -- 8. The US-led War on Terror -- Afghanistan: US responses to 9/11 -- US occupation and the Taliban insurgency -- Prospects for peace -- Iraq: the road to war -- US occupation, Sunni insurgency and Shia militia -- Conclusion -- 9. The Arab uprisings -- Causes and the 'contagion' effect -- Egypt, Mubarak and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: Comparative Electoral Politics in the Middle East -- PART I: ELECTORAL ISSUES -- 1. Turkey -- 2. Lebanon -- 3. Israel -- 4. Comparisons -- PART II: VOTING BEHAVIOUR -- 5. Turkey -- 6. Lebanon -- 7. Israel -- 8. Comparisons -- PART III: PARLIAMENTARY ELITES -- 9. Turkey -- 10. Lebanon -- 11. Israel -- 12. Comparisons -- Epilogue: Comparative Electoral Politics in the Middle East -- Index.

This volume draws together a number of research papers presented at a conference titled "Security, Insecurity and Prospects for Peace in the Middle East and North Africa", organised by Nottingham Trent University's Middle East and North Africa Research cluster in April 2016. The conference focused on questions pertinent to what may be termed the 'post-Arab Spring' era, in which the Middle East is experiencing unprecedented national and transnational challenges. Conflict, instability, radicalisation and the mass displacement of people have become increasingly salient features of the political and economic landscape of the region.The contributions here analyse a range of political, economic, security and socio-cultural issues that the authors argue lie at the heart of the instability that the region is currently experiencing. Re-thinking issues of security and insecurity in the Middle East not only allows us to explain what might have led to current instability, but also allows us to posit possible solutions to these security issues. In doing so, this book goes beyond the concepts of security and insecurity as a standard account of perpetrator versus victim, in a state-centric and violence-centric manner, to a broader and more complex understanding of the underlying processes informing security and insecurity in the region. The contributors include scholars from around the world working in a variety of different fields, including Middle Eastern studies, international relations and international political economy, providing an eclectic discussion of the state of the region.

In this 2010 edition of their book on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa, Clement Henry and Robert Springborg reflect on what has happened to the region's economy since 2001. How have the various countries in the Middle East responded to the challenges of globalization and to the rise of political Islam, and what changes, for better or for worse, have occurred? Utilizing the country categories they applied in the previous book and further elaborating the significance of the structural power of capital and Islamic finance, they demonstrate how over the past decade the monarchies (as exemplified by Jordan, Morocco and those of the Gulf Cooperation Council) and the conditional democracies (Israel, Turkey and Lebanon) continue to do better than the military dictatorships or 'bullies' (Egypt, Tunisia and now Iran) and 'the bunker states' (Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria and Yemen)

This edited volume introduces the political, social and economic intra-Kurdish dynamics in the Middle East by comparatively analyzing the main actors, their ideas, and political interests. As an ethnic group and a nation in the making, Kurds are not homogeneous and united but rather the Kurdish Middle East is home to various competing political groups, leaderships, ideologies, and interests. Although many existing studies focus on the Kurds and their relations with the nation-states that they populate, few studies analyze the Kurdish Middle East within its own debates, conflicts and interests from a comparative perspective across Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria. This book analyzes the intra-Kurdish dynamics with historically-grounded, theoretically-informed, and conceptually-relevant scholarship that prioritizes comparative politics over international relations. Emel Elif Tugdar is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kurdistan Hewler in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Her research agenda includes ethno-politics, human rights, politics of gender with a major focus on Middle East, specifically Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan.Serhun Al is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey. His research interests include politics of identity, ethnic conflict, security studies and social movements. His recent publications have appeared in journals such as Ethnopolitics, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Nationalities Papers, Globalizations, Journal of International Relations and Development, and Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.

Chapter 1: An Introduction: Gendered Rentierism in the Arab World -- Chapter 2: State Feminism and Gender Rentierism -- Chapter 3: Foreign Aid and Virtue Signaling -- Chapter 4: The Gender Paradox of Remittances -- Chapter 5: Independents, Women's Work, and Oil Rents -- Chapter 6. Gender Rentierism—a Curse or an Opportunity for Women?

Addressing systemic changes in the Middle East's security environment since the Iraq War, this book analyzes the challenges these changes pose to US strategy and policy. It examines the causes of economic, political and religious transitions and their implications for hopes of reform

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Looking Forward: The Challenge of Building Sustainable Peace -- References -- Part I Policy Challenges Amidst Arab Spring Revolutions and Civil Wars -- 2 The Role of Sazman-e-Honari Rosanai Oax (Owj) During the "Maximum Pressure" Campaign Against Iran -- Militainment and Symbolic Power in Digital Times -- Iranian Militainment and the Formation of Sazman-e-Honari Rosanai (Owj) -- The Role of Sazman-e-Honari Rosanai During Maximum Pressure Campaign -- References -- 3 Seeing Like a State: The Crisis of Building the State of South Sudan -- Building States in Post-Conflict Settings: Theory and History -- Outbreak of Civil War: An Ethnic Divide and Humanitarian Catastrophe -- Short- and Long-Term Conflict Resolution -- References -- 4 Policing Coexistence Through Economic Incentives: An Analysis of Nir Barkat's Policies on Education in East Jerusalem During His Tenure as Mayor (2009-2018) -- Theoretical-Methodological Strategy: Grounded Theory and Content Analysis -- Politics of Politicians and Professionals: The Entrepreneur as a Shepherd -- Open Jerusalem: Nir Barkat's Political Rationality -- Precarious Life and the Non-choice of Proximity -- Pedagogy for an Open Jerusalem: Promoting the Bagrut in East Jerusalem -- A Unified City, a Community of Entrepreneurs -- References -- 5 An Exploration of the Dimensions of Exclusion Associated with Intimate Violence Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon -- Key Terms and Methodology -- Conceptual Framework-Exclusion and Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence in Refugee Settings -- Interrelating Exclusion in Refugee Settings and DV/IPV -- Dimensions of Social Exclusion Associated with DV/IPV -- Policies of Exclusion -- Community Exclusion -- Impact of COVID-19 on DV/IPV -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References.