Islamic Liberation Theology

Resisting the Empire

By Hamid Dabashi

This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive rethinking of the clash of civilizations theory and global politics.

In this richly detailed criticism of contemporary...

Published May 12th 2008 by Routledge.

US Foreign Policy in the Middle East

The Roots of Anti-Americanism

By Kylie Baxter, Shahram Akbarzadeh

Over the last sixty years, Washington has been a major player in the politics of the Middle East. From Iran in the 1950s, to the Gulf...

Published April 25th 2008 by Routledge.

Turkey

Terrorism, Civil Rights, and the European Union

Edited by Yonah Alexander, Edgar H. Brenner, Serhat Tutuncuoglu Krause

How do democratic societies maintain the balance between civil rights and security while continuing the fight on global terrorism? This work raises this issue and...

Published April 25th 2008 by Routledge.

1997–2007

Edited by Lloyd Ridgeon

Previously published as a special issue of British Journal of Middle East Studies, this volume focuses on leading figures within Iran between 1997-2007 and their...

Published April 24th 2008 by Routledge.

A Paradigm for the Post-Colonial State

By Michael Rear

External intervention by the U.N. and other actors in ethnic conflicts has interfered with the state-building process in post-colonial states. Rear examines the 1991 uprisings...

Published April 23rd 2008 by Routledge.

Armed Groups, Disarmament and Security in a Post-War Society

By Michael Vinay Bhatia, Mark Sedra

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive assessment of small arms and security-related issues in post-9/11 Afghanistan. It includes case studies which reveal...

Published April 15th 2008 by Routledge.

Edited by Shmeul Sandler, Manfred Gerstenfeld, Jonathan Rynhold

The 2006 elections constitute a major redrawing of the political map in Israel due to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s exit from the Likud party and...

Published April 7th 2008 by Routledge.

Afghanistan

Political Frailty and External Interference

By Nabi Misdaq

Afghan society is analyzed from a fresh standpoint in this book which discusses the country’s two and a half centuries of socio-political disquiet and outside...

Published April 1st 2008 by Routledge.

A comparative analysis of Italy, Spain and Turkey

By Lauren M. McLaren

Why are some regimes democratic while others are not? Specifically, how have Spain and Italy managed to become democratic while Turkey, which shares many similar...

Published March 20th 2008 by Routledge.

Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict

Edited by Philip Carl Salzman, Donna Robinson Divine

Postcolonial theory is one of the main frameworks for thinking about the world and acting to change the world. Arising in academia and reshaping humanities...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.