Middle East Security
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The Arab Spring, Democracy and Security
Domestic and International Ramifications
Series: BESA Studies in International Security
This volume analyzes the political, economic and strategic dimensions of the recent upheavals in the Middle East known as the Arab Spring. Mass demonstrations in many Arab states challenged the political status quo and the existing political and cultural system in the region. While it is too early...
Published March 5th 2013 by Routledge
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Recasting Iranian Modernity
International Relations and Social Change
Series: Iranian Studies
Critically deploying the idea of uneven and combined development this book provides a novel non-Eurocentric account of Iran’s experience of modernity and revolution. Recasting Iranian Modernity presents the argument that Eurocentrism can be decisively overcome through a social theory that has...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Social Mobilization in the Arab/Israeli War of 1948
On the Israeli Home Front
Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society
In many ways, the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 is typical of the total military conflicts that characterized the first half of the twentieth century. However, in addition to the military course of the war, and its formative and revolutionary ramifications, this war was also notable for the social...
Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
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Arms Control and Missile Proliferation in the Middle East
Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
This edited volume provides a systematic analysis of the missile threat and proliferation issue in the Middle East region. The question of how to increase the level of security in the Middle East is not a new one, given the conflict-ridden nature of the region. The solution attempted for this...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Reconceptualizing Deterrence
Nudging Toward Rationality in Middle Eastern Rivalries
Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
This book offers a reconceptualisation of conventional deterrence theory, and applies it to enduring rivalries in the Middle East. The work argues that many of the problems encountered in the development of deterrence theory lay in the fact that it was developed during the Cold War, when the...
Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
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The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
10th Edition
Series: Routledge Historical Atlases
The Routledge Atlas of the Arab-Israeli Conflict traces not only the tangled and bitter history of the Arab-Jewish struggle from the early twentieth century to the present, including the death of Yasser Arafat and recent proposals for compromise and co-operation, it also illustrates the current...
Published February 15th 2012 by Routledge
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The War in Darfur
Reclaiming Sudanese History
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society
No other crisis in Africa has received as much attention in the West during the past 10 years as the war in Darfur, yet the underlying complexities of the war and the background to the crisis remains poorly understood by scholars, activists and aid workers. This anthropological study of the war in...
Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
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The Invasion of Afghanistan and UK-Soviet Relations, 1979-1982
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VIII
Series: Whitehall Histories
This volume examines British policy towards the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. The documents in this volume, many released into the public realm for the first time, describe the development of British policy towards the Soviet Union during the...
Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
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The Afghan Papers
Committing Britain to War in Helmand, 2005–06
Series: Whitehall Papers
In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade. At great cost in blood and treasure, the UK waged a protracted counter-insurgency against a resurgent Taliban. But how was the decision taken to commit...
Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
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Dynamics of Change in the Persian Gulf
Political Economy, War and Revolution
The Persian Gulf has come to represent one of the most strategically significant waterways of the world. In terms of geography, geopolitics, resources, global political economy, and regional influence, the Gulf is perhaps home to the world’s most significant group of countries. Focusing on the...
Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
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Egypt's Permanent Revolution
Protest Movements and Uprisings
This book intends to throw light on the 'Arab spring' of 2011 by investigating the specific experience of Egypt. To this end, the revolution in Egypt and its subsequent development are situated within a historical framework of a decade long of protest movements and new forms of opposition politics....
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
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The Sharia State
Arab Spring and Democratization
Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, The Sharia State examines the Islamist concept of political order. This order is based on a new interpretation of sharia and has been dubbed "the Islamic state" by Islamists. The concept of "the Islamic state," has been elevated to a political agenda and...
To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge
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The Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places
The Struggle for Jerusalem’s Holy Places investigates the role of architecture and urban identity in relation to the political economy of the city and its wider state context seen through the lens of the holy places. Reflecting the broad disciplinary backgrounds of the authors, this book provides...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
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The Essence of Islamist Extremism
Recognition through Violence, Freedom through Death
Series: Routledge Studies in Political Islam
This book provides a critical and a conceptual analysis of radical Islamist rhetoric drawn from temporally and contextually varied Islamist extremist groups, challenging the popular understanding of Islamist extremism as a product of a ‘clash-of-civilizations’. Arguing that the essence of Islamist...
Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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International Watercourses Law in the Nile River Basin
Three States at a Crossroads
The Nile River and its basin extend over a distinctive geophysical cord connecting eleven sovereign states from Egypt to Tanzania, which are home to an estimated population of 422.2 million people. The Nile is an essential source of water for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses throughout...
Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge