Over-Stating the Arab State | Nazih N. Ayubi. Nazih Ayubi. Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East. Robert Springborg. Networks of Privilege in the Middle East : Palgrave Connect. Steven Heydemann. The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life - Roger Owen. The monarchical presidential regimes that prevailed in the Arab world for so long looked as though they would last indefinitely—until events in Tunisia and Egypt made clear their time was up. The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life exposes for the first time the origins and dynamics of a governmental system that largely defined the Arab Middle East in the twentieth century. Presidents who rule for life have been a feature of the Arab world since independence. In the 1980s their regimes increasingly resembled monarchies as presidents took up residence in palaces and made every effort to ensure their sons would succeed them.
Roger Owen explores the main features of the prototypical Arab monarchical regime: its household; its inner circle of corrupt cronies; and its attempts to create a popular legitimacy based on economic success, a manipulated constitution, managed elections, and information suppression. History Department - E. Roger Owen.
State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East. A History of Middle East Economies in the Twentieth Century. Joel Beinin - Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East (2001) Joel Beinin. The Modern Middle East: James L. Gelvin. James Gelvin. The Modern Middle East: 2nd Edition. Ilan Pappe. The Struggle for Arab Independence. Patrick Seale. The Origins of Arab Nationalism. Rashid Khalidi. The Middle East in International Relations. The international relations of the Middle East have long been dominated by uncertainty and conflict.
External intervention, interstate war, political upheaval and interethnic violence are compounded by the vagaries of oil prices and the claims of military nationalist and religious movements. Fred Halliday sets this region and its conflicts in context, providing on the one hand, a historical introduction to its character and problems, and, on the other, a reasoned analysis of its politics. In an engagement with both the study of the Middle East and the theoretical analysis of international relations, Halliday, one of the best known and most respected scholars writing on the region today, offers a compelling and original interpretation. Written in a clear, accessible and interactive style, the book is designed for students, policymakers, and the general reader. Fred Halliday is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. "In his new book...Mr. The International Politics of the Middle East Regional International Politics Series: Amazon.co.uk: Raymond Hinnebusch.
Book Description Publication Date: 17 April 2003 | Series: Regional International Politics Series This text aims to fill a gap in the field of middle eastern political studies by combining international relations theory with concrete case studies. It should be of benefit to students of middle eastern politics, international relations and comparative politics. The book begins with an overview of the rules and features of the middle east regional system - the arena in which the local states, including Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Israel and the Arab states of Syria, Jordan and Iraq, operate.
It goes on to analyse foreign policy-making in key states, illustrating how systemic determinants constrain this policy-making, and how these constraints are dealt with in distinctive ways depending on the particular domestic features of the individual states. Frequently Bought Together Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Product Description About the Author 4.5 out of 5 stars Most Helpful Customer Reviews.
Raymond Hinnebusch. Fred Halliday. Islam, People and the State. The recent prominence of Islamic politics in the Middle East, has raised important questions about society, politics and culture. It has posed a challenge to the main theoretical approaches in the social sciences from Marxism to modernization theory and it has given some credence to the idea that the world of Islam is essentially distinct from Europe, and follows a course of development dictated by its own history and culture. In this book, Sami Zubaida challenges these diverse opinions in favour of a general political sociology capable of dealing with the historical and cultural personalities of societies and situations in the region.
He argues that rather than being 'revivals' of historical ideas and institutions, current political and social developments in the Islamic World are, in fact, uniquely modern phenomena. Sami Zubaida — Department of Politics, Birkbeck. Contending Visions of the Middle East. Zachary Lockman.
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