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Inventing Home
University of California Press 2001; US$ 12.95Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, shedding much needed light on the impact of emigration... more...
Structuring Conflict in the Arab World
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 47.00This book examines how ruling elites manipulate political opponents in the Middle East. In contrast to discussions of government-opposition relations that focus on how rulers either punish or co-opt opponents, this book focuses on the effect of institutional rules governing who is allowed to participate in the formal political system. more...
The Israeli Response to Jewish Extremism and Violence
Manchester University Press 2002; US$ 74.95Ami Pedahzur looks at the theoretical issue of how a democracy can defend itself from those wishing to subvert or destroy it without being required to take measures that would impinge upon the basic principles of the democratic idea, with a case study of the Israeli response to Jewish extremism. more...
Israeli Institutions At The Crossroads
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 150.00This is the ultimate collection of essays about Israeli society, its politics, schisms and institutions. more...
The Changing Japanese Political System
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 180.00Examines the impact the 1993 general election had on Japanese politics. Although the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) regained the position of a ruling party within a year, the author questions whether the Japanese political system has managed to maintain the same efficacy as it had prior to 1993. more...
Beyond Right and Left
Allen & Unwin 2005; US$ 29.99Maps the death of politics based on the traditional opposition between Left and Right, and offers a provocative argument for the emergence of a new values-based politics in Australia. more...
Legitimacy
World Scientific Publishing Company 2005; US$ 88.40This book documents the bases for a new view of legitimacy in general and in various parts of Asia, including China, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. The authors see legitimacy anywhere as always partial, rather than total, and somewhat measurable. more...
Democratisation in the Middle East
Aarhus University Press 2005; US$ 26.40The main aim of the book is to provide a forum for opinions held by Arabs who are neither Western puppets nor fanatical nationalists or Islamists, but rather academics with a vast knowledge of the Middle East as well as of the West. more...
Keywords in Australian Politics
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 40.00Political language is often used without explanation in the media, public debate, textbooks and lectures. Keywords in Australian Politics provides Australians with the necessary information to use these terms with confidence in public discussion and debate, from the dinner party to the end-of-semester essay. more...
East Asian Democratization
Greenwood Publishing Group 2000; US$ 125.00This text creates an Asian political development model to take into account cultural and historical perspectives. This model is then tested with quantitative indicators and through a series of case studies, based on Japan, South Korea and Thailand. more...









