Télécharger le livre :  Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War
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This book analyzes the ways in which US policy toward Iraq was dictated by America's broader Cold War strategy between 1958 and 1975. While most historians have focused on “hot” Cold War conflicts such as Cuba, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, few have recognized Iraq's...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-29
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Jimmy Carter and the Middle East
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Based on newly declassified documents, this book offers a provocative new analysis of President Jimmy Carter's political role in Arab-Israeli diplomacy. It analyzes the reflexive relationship between domestic politics and foreign policy, especially the roles played by...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-08-05
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Hezbollah, Islamist Politics, and International Society
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How do the norms of the liberal international order affect the activity of Islamist movements? This book analyzes and assesses the extent to which Islamist groups, which have traditionally attempted to shield their communities from “alien” moral conceptions, have been...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-16
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  “Dual Containment” Policy in the Persian Gulf
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This book offers a concise account of US "dual containment" policy towards Iran and Iraq during the 1990s, an overlooked era between the tumult of the liberation of Kuwait and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In particular, it uses a theoretical framework...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-12-16
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  The Role of Ideology in Syrian-US Relations
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A study of US-Syria relations, this book analyzes the legacy of mistrust between the two states and continuities and discontinuities over time. It challenges the purely realist and power-political explanation that is dominant and points to a politically embedded set of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-02
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Political Islam in the Age of Democratization
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The continued prominence of Islam in the struggle for democracy in the Muslim world has confounded Western democracy theorists who largely consider secularism a prerequisite for democratic transitions. Kamran Bokhari and Farid Senzai offer a comprehensive view of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-12-18
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  State, Religion, and Revolution in Iran, 1796 to the Present
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Two basic assumptions have shaped understanding of recent Iranian history. One is that Shi'ism is an integral part of Iran's religious and cultural landscape. The other is that the ulama (religious scholars) have always played a crucial role. This book challenges these...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-11-07
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Palestinians in the Israeli Labor Market
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Bringing together important contributions from leading Israeli Jewish and Palestinian scholars, this comprehensive and multi-disciplinary volume addresses the most recent developments and outcomes of the labor market integration of the Palestinian minority inside...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-08-13
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  The Social and Economic Origins of Monarchy in Jordan
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An interpretative history of the emergence and consolidation of the modern state in Jordan, this book examines the resilience of the Hashemite monarchy and the economic sources of social power under Ottoman, British, and post-colonial Hashemite rule.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-01-07
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Egypt Awakening in the Early Twentieth Century
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Through a detailed study of Mayy Ziy?dah's literary salon, Boutheina Khaldi sheds light on salon and epistolary culture in early twentieth-century Egypt and its role in Egypt's Nahdah (Awakening). Bringing together history, women's studies, Arabic literature,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-12-23
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Palestinian Activism in Israel
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A close description of Amal El'Sana-Alh'jooj's experiences as a Palestinian Bedouin female activist, this book explores Amal's activism and demonstrates that activists' biographies provide a means of understanding the complexities of political situations they are...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-15
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Bahrain from the Twentieth Century to the Arab Spring
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An exploration of the modern history of Bahrain and its international relations, Joyce investigates the country's relations with the US, the UK, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the USSR. Placing today's events in context, she covers the history of tension between Sunni and Shia...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-08-16
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Islam, the State, and Political Authority
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The expert essays in this volume deal with critically important topics concerning Islam and politics in both the pre-modern and modern periods, such as the nature of government, the relationship between politics and theology, Shi'i conceptions of statecraft, notions of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-12-05
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  The Constitutional System of Turkey
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Starting with the historical development of constitutional government in Turkey, the author analyzes the basic characteristics of the present Turkish Constitution (that of 1982), the fundamental structure of the state (the legislature, executive, and the judiciary), the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-10-03
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Nonviolent Resistance in the Second Intifada
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Offering diverse perspectives from scholars, practitioners, and activists, this bookillustrates the potential strengths and challenges of unarmed resistance in Palestine by Palestinians as well as of internationals and Israelis acting in solidarity.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-09-26
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Religion and the State in Turkish Universities
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This book explores educational and cultural experiences of 'part-time' unveilers during their undergraduate degree programs in public institutions in Turkey. The term 'part-time unveiler' refers to undergraduate female students who cover their hair in their private...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-07-04
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  ‘Ali Shari'ati and the Shaping of Political Islam in Iran
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This book tells the story of how Shari'ati developed a language of political Islam, speaking in an idiom intelligible to the Iranian public and subverting the Shah's regime and its claim to legitimacy.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-06-06
Collection : Middle East Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Turkish Foreign Policy
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This book explores how Turkey's contested national identity has affected its foreign policysince the late Ottoman era. The book takes a constructivist approach, asserting that identity matters for foreign policy decisions, but it separates itself from statist approaches...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-11
Collection : Middle East Today
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