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1. Crises in the Contemporary Persian Gulf

   Edited by Barry Rubin

   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....

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Islamic Political and Social Movements

   Edited by Barry Rubin

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   The growing importance of Islam in the world coincides with the growing interest by scholars in understanding Islam as a religion and its political and social influences. The geographic scope of Islam goes far beyond the Middle East, ranging from the Far East to sub-Saharan Africa.There is a vast...

   Published April 22nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Islamization of Turkey under the AKP Rule

   Edited by Birol Yesilada, Barry Rubin

   This book examines the decade in office of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its efforts to transform the Turkish republic toward a more Islamist-oriented system. If it succeeds, Turkey’s dramatic shift will be the most important change in the Middle East power balance since the 1979...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
4. Security and Stability in the Middle East

   Edited by Barry Rubin

   Series: Critical Concepts in Military, Strategic, and Security Studies

   No region of the world has been more affected by the forces of instability and the factors of war and insecurity than has the Middle East. The area has seen more violence and conflict in the last three or four decades than all of the other world regions put together. Moreover, conflict in the area...

   Published December 22nd 2011 by Routledge
5. The West and the Middle East

   Edited by Barry Rubin

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   Why is the Middle East the only part of the world which has drawn the West into wars in the last thirty years? With a sequence of events since 1945, including the Six-Day War, the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, and the two Gulf wars, the Middle East has been the most important region of...

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
6. Conflict and Insurgency in the Contemporary Middle East

   Edited by Barry Rubin

   Series: Middle Eastern Military Studies

   Political violence and instability in the Middle East is arguably the world's most important political issue. The region is certainly the globe's leading area for turmoil, war, and violence; and its conflicts have continuously involved Western countries both directly and indirectly. This book...

   Published February 27th 2010 by Routledge
7. Religion and Politics in Turkey

   Edited by Barry Rubin, Ali Carkoglu

   Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in influence and has effectively reshaped party competition in Turkey. Policy mandates and electoral bases of the rising extreme right rely on potentially explosive social cleavages...

   Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
8. Political Islam

   Edited by Barry Rubin

   Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

   Bringing together canonical and the best cutting-edge scholarship in one useful reference resource, the shortcomings as well as the successes of Islamism are fully examined in this three volume collection of seventy-five key journal articles on all aspects of modern political Islamism. 'Political...

   Published December 5th 2006 by Routledge
9. Political Islam

   Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies

   Edited by Barry Rubin

   Published December 3rd 2006 by Routledge
10. Religion and Politics in Turkey

    Edited by Barry Rubin, Ali Çarkoglu

    Over the last decade the once marginal extreme right of the Turkish ideological spectrum has grown in size as well as in influence and has effectively reshaped party competition in Turkey. Policy mandates and electoral bases of the rising extreme right rely on potentially explosive social cleavages...

    Published December 6th 2005 by Routledge