Middle East Politics Books

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41. Iran

    Politics, History and Literature

    By Homa Katouzian

    Series: Iranian Studies

    This book offers a view of Iran through politics, history and literature, showing how the three angles combine. Iran, being a revolutionary society, experienced two great revolutions within the short span of just seventy years, from the 1900s to the 1970s. Both were massive revolts of the society...

    Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
42. Somalia: State Collapse, Terrorism and Piracy

    Edited by Brian Hesse

    The situation in Somalia today embodies some of the most pressing issues in international relations. How should the international community deal with the collapsed state that is Somalia? From the presence of al-Qaeda operatives to pirates, to what extent is Somalia a threat to global peace and...

    Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
43. Hamas and Suicide Terrorism

    Multi-causal and Multi-level Approaches

    By Rashmi Singh

    Series: LSE International Studies Series

    This book analyses the root causes of suicide terrorism at both the elite and rank-and- file levels of the Hamas and also explains why this tactic has disappeared in the post-2006 period. This volume adopts a multi-causal, multi-level approach to analyse the use of suicide bombings by Hamas and...

    Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
44. Negotiating Political Power in Turkey

    Breaking up the Party

    Edited by Elise Massicard, Nicole Watts

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

    This edited collection looks at how political parties in Turkey actually work, inside and out. Departing from traditional macro-level analyses, the book offers a new sociological approach to the study of political parties, treating them as non-unitary entities composed of many different groups and...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
45. EU-Turkey Relations in the 21st Century

    By Birol Yesilada

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

    The possibility of Turkey’s accession to the European Union has been problematic. Initially, the EU’s pursuit of regional economic integration and enlargement of membership, at the exclusion of Turkey, strained relations between the two. It was not until 1999, and under pressure from the US, that...

    Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
46. Politics of Memory

    The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

    By Udi Lebel

    Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society

    This book illustrates how a dominant political party, the Mapai, under the leadership of P.M. David Ben-Gurion, chose to ‘hug,’ honor and commemorate ‘Her Fallen’ and ‘Her Bereaved Families,’ whilst simultaneously ignoring the fallen that were identified with the rival political party, Herut, led...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
47. Environmental Politics in Egypt

    Activists, Experts and the State

    By Jeannie Sowers

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

    Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Egypt from the late 1990s to 2011, this book shows how experts and activists used distinctive approaches to influence state and firm decision-making in three important environmental policy domains. These include; industrial pollution from large-scale...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
48. Patronage Politics in Egypt

    The National Democratic Party and Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo

    By Mohamed Fahmy Menza

    Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics

    Between the military takeover of 1952 and the collapse of the Mubarak regime in 2011, the political system of Egypt depended upon a variety of mechanisms and structures to establish and consolidate its powerbase. Among those, an intricate web of what could be described as ‘patronage politics’...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
49. Democratic Transition in the Middle East

    Unmaking Power

    Edited by Larbi Sadiki, Heiko Wimmen, Layla Al Zubaidi

    Popular uprisings and revolts across the Arab Middle East have often resulted in a democratic faragh or void in power. How society seeks to fill that void, regardless of whether the regime falls or survives, is the common trajectory followed by the seven empirical case studies published here for...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
50. Routledge Handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    Edited by Joel Peters, David Newman

    The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most prominent issues in world politics today. Few other issues have dominated the world’s headlines and have attracted such attention from policy makers, the academic community, political analysts, and the world’s media. The Routledge Handbook on the...

    Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge