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The making of Middle East politics / Michele Penner Angrist -- Contemporary dynamics -- Governments and oppositions / Mona El-Ghobashy and Michele Penner Angrist -- The impact of international politics / F. Gregory Gause III and Curtis R. Ryan -- Political economy / Pete W. Moore -- Civil society / Sheila Carapico -- Religion and politics / Jillian Schwedler -- Identity and politics / David Siddhartha Patel -- Gender and politics / Diane Singerman and Danielle Higgins -- Cases -- Algeria / Yahia H. Zoubir -- Egypt / Joshua Stacher -- Iran / Arang Keshavarzian -- Iraq / Fred H. Lawson -- Israel / Alan Dowty -- Jordan / Curtis R. Ryan -- Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates / Michael Herb -- Palestine / Nathan J. Brown -- Saudi Arabia / Gwenn Okruhlik -- Syria / Fred H. Lawson -- Turkey / Marcie J. Patton -- Conclusion -- Trends and prospects / Michele Penner Angrist.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Party Systems and Regime Formation in the Middle East -- Part I: Explaining Party System Characteristics -- 1. The Emergence of the Preponderant Single-Party Systems -- 2. The Emergence of the Multiparty Systems -- 3. The Emergence of Bipartism in Turkey -- Part II: The Impact of Party Systems on Regime Formation -- 4: Preponderant Single Parties and Immediate Authoritarian Rule -- 5. Polarization, Mobilizational Asymmetry, and Delayed Authoritarian Rule -- 6. Depolarization, Increased Mobilizational Symmetry, and the Consolidation of Competitive Politics in Turkey -- Conclusion: The Arguments in Middle East and Comparative Perspective -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Analyzes the Turkish state's failure to successfully accommodate its Kurdish population. Attention is called to the violent nature of the conflict; limitations that have been placed on Kurds' civil/political liberties; & the "emergency rule" that has become a way of life in southeast Turkey. Three institutional characteristics that have both generated & prolonged the conflict are: a highly centralized unitary state; prevalence of an assimilationist nationalist ideology; & "the long shadow the Turkish military has cast over civilian politicians." It is argued that any hope for successful accommodation of the Turkish-Kurdish cleavage depends on implementing reforms that change the shape of state & regime institutions. Emphasis is placed on the need for Turkish officials to shorten the military's political shadow; stop relying on repression as the only response to Kurdish claims; grant Kurds political/cultural rights; rethink the nature of Turkish nationalism; & devolve some decision-making power to the local level. These reforms would not trigger a secessionist movement because most Kurds do not want it. 2 Tables, 35 References. J. Lindroth

The essays contained in this volume challenge and complement standard treatments of Turkish history during the 1930s. Typically, the 1930s are cast as a decade that opened with the Turkish economy reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. Decisionmakers in the ruling Republican People's Party (RPP) were not without a response, however. They introduced statist economic policies whereby the Turkish state began to play an augmented role in production and capital accumulation. The conventional story thus chronicles the ruling elite's most visible policy reaction to the material hardships of the 1930s.

The Maghrib at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Benjamin Stora --A Half-century after independence : rethinking Maghribi history, memory, and identity. The (re)fashioning of Moroccan national identity / Mickael Bensadoun -- Algerian identity and memory / Robert Mortimer -- Berber/Amazigh "memory work" / Bruce Maddy-Weitzman -- Regimes and societies : new challenges. Reflections on the aftermath of civil strife : Algeria, 2006 / Gideon Gera -- The fate of political Islam in Algeria / Louisa At-Hamadouche and Yahia H. Zoubir -- From Hasan II to Muhammad VI : plus ca change? / Daniel Zisenwine -- Justice and development or justice and spirituality? : the challenge of Morocco's nonviolent Islamist movements / Michael J. Willis -- Whither the Ben Ali Regime in Tunisia? / Michele Penner Angrist -- The economic dimension. The constraints on economic development in Morocco and Tunisia / Paul Rivlin -- Algeria's economy : mutations, performance, and challenges / Ahmed Aghrout and Michael Hodd -- The Maghrib and Europe. The Maghrib abroad : immigrant transpolitics and cultural involution in France / Paul A. Silverstein