Edited by Sune Haugbolle, Anders Hastrup

In the last five to ten years, pressure for political liberalisation, and the growth of civil society and independent media, inside Arab countries have prompted...

October 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44811-6 (Routledge)

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Globalization and Geopolitics in the Middle East

Old games, new rules

By Anoushiravan Ehteshami

Examining globalization in the Middle East, this book provides a much needed assessment of the impact of globalization in the ‘greater’ Middle East, including North...

October 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47712-3 (Routledge)

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Japan's Middle East Security Policy

Theory and Cases

By Yukiko Miyagi

This study examines how Japanese policy toward Middle East security issues is shaped by the need to both maintain Japan’s security alliance with the US...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45878-8 (Routledge)

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By Hussein Ghubash

Oman is the inheritor of a unique political tradition, the imama (imamate), and has a special place in the Arab Islamic world. From the eighth...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48132-8 (Routledge)

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The Political Functions of Associational Life

By Andrea Liverani

Between 1987 and today Algeria has been engaged in a conflict pitching the army against Islamist guerilla groups which has killed more than 200.000 people....

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77583-0 (Routledge)

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National Identity and Political Change

Edited by Susannah Verney, Kostas Ifantis

Enlargement to Turkey is arguably the greatest challenge facing the European Union today. After the narrowly averted "train crash" over Cyprus in 2006, the second...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46619-6 (Routledge)

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The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

A People's War

By Beverley Milton-Edwards

The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is one of the most enduring and complex in the modern world. But, why did the conflict break out?...

July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41043-4 (Routledge)

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Global Jihadism

Theory and Practice

By Jarret M. Brachman

Global Jihadism exposes the core doctrine and strategy of today’s global Jihadist movement.

The first half of the book explores the ideas upon which groups...

July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45242-7 (Routledge)

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The Jewish nation-state and human rights

By Alexander Yakobson, Amnon Rubinstein

Can Israel be both Jewish and truly democratic? How can a nation–state, which incorporates a large national minority with a distinct identity of its own...

July 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46441-3 (Routledge)

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Intervention, Ethnic Conflict and State-Building in Iraq

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...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96466-1 (Routledge)

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