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Networks of Privilege in the Middle East
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 95.00This volume explores the role of informal networks in the politics of Middle Eastern economic reform. The editor's introduction demonstrates how network-based models overcome limitations in existing approaches to the politics of economic reform. The following chapters show how business-state networks in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, and... more...
Secular and Islamic Politics in Turkey
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95Turkey is ninty-nine per cent Muslim, its ruling party, Justice and Development Party (JDP), comes from but denies its Islamist pedigree and has a very secular feel. However, the deeply secular regime distrusts the JDP with regard to its 'true' colours. This book makes sense of these paradoxical perceptions which have characterized Turkey?s politics... more...
Palestinian Civil Society
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 44.95Palestinian Civil Society examines the development of civil society in the Arab Middle East and the impact of western donors, with particular reference to the Palestinian case. Looking at the evolution of Palestinian civil society organizations from sociological, historical, legal, and institutional perspectives, the book sheds light on the involvement... more...
Democracy in the Muslim Societies
SAGE India 2007; US$ 49.95Democracy in Muslim Societies: The Asian Experience explores the character. of the political transformation and democratic transition in the Asian Muslim. world. It asks whether democracy is appropriate and desirable as a political system. for non-Western societies, and assesses the extent of actual democratization in. each of the countries studied,... more...
The Ayatollahs and Democracy in Contemporary Iraq
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 20.00A seminal analysis of the most recent developments in Iraqi Shiism more...
Understanding Iran
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95Iran remains among the most poorly understood countries in the world and, for most Americans, terra incognita. A small community of American analysts in the government, academia, and the countrys think tanks is, of course, working on Iran, but the overwhelming majority of them have never been to Iran or have visited only briefly. The consequences... more...
World Society and the Middle East
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 95.00Offers a novel cross-disciplinary theoretical perspective on conflict and conflict transformation in world society, and integrates the study of conflicts in the Middle East region into a modern systems theoretical framework. more...
Political Ideology in the Arab World
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 26.00Discusses some of the most significant ideological debates that have animated the Arab world over the last two decades. more...
Militarism and Israeli Society
Indiana University Press 2010; US$ 22.90Challenging the established view that the civilian sector in Israel has been predominant over its security sector since the state's independence in 1948, this volume critically and systematically reexamines the relationship between these sectors and provides a deeper, more nuanced view of their interactions.... more...
Barriers to Democracy
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 52.50Democracy-building efforts from the early 1990s on have funneled billions of dollars into nongovernmental organizations across the developing world, with the U.S. administration of George W. Bush leading the charge since 2001. But are many such "civil society" initiatives fatally flawed? Focusing on the Palestinian West Bank and the Arab world, Barriers... more...









