Author: Frank Tachau
Publisher: Schenkman Books
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Monographic collection of essays on elites in the political systems in the Middle East, with emphasis on traditional culture and modernization - includes bibliographys, maps, references and statistical tables.
Author: Barry Buzan
Publisher: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
Published: 2009-03-12
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers an overview of Middle Eastern history and how its own traditions have mixed, often uncomfortably, with the political structures imposed by the expansion of Western international society. This book also features an application of the English school's central ideas at the regional level
Author: Larry Diamond
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2012-07-30
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1421405687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Liberation Technology brings together cutting-edge scholarship from scholars and practitioners at the forefront of this burgeoning field of study. An introductory section defines the debate with a foundational piece on liberation technology and is then followed by essays discussing the popular dichotomy of liberation'' versus "control" with regard to the Internet and the sociopolitical dimensions of such controls. Additional chapters delve into the cases of individual countries: China, Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia.
Author: Michele Penner Angrist
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9781588269089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cutting-edge examination of the domestic politics, now thoroughly revised to reflect the events of the Arab Spring.
Author: Steffen Hertog
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1849042357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although most Arab countries remain authoritarian, many have undergone a restructuring of state-society relations in which lower- and middle-class interest groups have lost ground while big business has benefited in terms of its integration into policy-making and the opening of economic sectors that used to be state-dominated. Arab businesses have also started taking on aspects of public service provision in health, media and education that used to be the domain of the state; they have also become increasingly active in philanthropy. The ‘Arab Spring,’ which is likely to lead to a more pluralistic political order, makes it all the more important to understand business interests in the Middle East, a segment of society that on the one hand has often been close to the ancien regime, but on the other will play a pivotal role in a future social contract. Among the topics addressed by the authors are the role of business in recent regime change; the political outlook of businessmen; the consequences of economic liberalisation on the composition of business elites in the Middle East; the role of the private sector in orienting government policies; lobbying of government by business interests and the mechanisms by which governments seek to keep businesses dependent on them.
Author: Raymond Hinnebusch
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 1847795226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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 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. The book 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. Finally, it goes on to look at the outcomes of state policies by examining several major conflicts including the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Gulf War, and the system of regional alignment. The study assesses the impact of international penetration in the region, including the historic reasons behind the formation of the regional state system. It also analyses the continued role of external great powers, such as the United States and the former Soviet Union, and explains the process by which the region has become incorporated into the global capitalist market.
Author: Jared Rubin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-16
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 110703681X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.
Author: Manfred Halpern
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-12-08
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 140087534X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author, analyzing major social groups in this area, treats particularly the "new middle class," a group socially isolated from the traditional life of Islam and committed to a wide-ranging modernizing impulse. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Raymond A. Hinnebusch
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9781588260208
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Preface p. vii 1 Introduction: The Analytical Framework Raymond Hinnebusch p. 1 2 The Middle East Regional System Raymond Hinnebusch p. 29 3 The Impact of the International System on the Middle East B.A. Roberson p. 55 4 The Challenge of Security in the Post--Gulf War Middle East System Nadia El-Shazly and Raymond Hinnebusch p. 71 5 The Foreign Policy of Egypt Raymond Hinnebusch p. 91 6 The Foreign Policy of Israel Clive Jones p. 115 7 The Foreign Policy of Syria Raymond Hinnebusch p. 141 8 The Foreign Policy of Iraq Charles Tripp p. 167 9 The Foreign Policy of Saudi Arabia F. Gregory Gause III p. 193 10 The Foreign Policy of Libya Tim Niblock p. 213 11 The Foreign Policy of Tunisia Emma C. Murphy p. 235 12 The Foreign Policy of Yemen Fred Halliday p. 257 13 The Foreign Policy of Iran Anoushiravan Ehteshami p. 283 14 The Foreign Policy of Turkey Philip Robins p. 311 15 Conclusion: Patterns of Policy Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Raymond Hinnebusch p. 335 Glossary p. 351 Bibliography p. 355 The Contributors p. 365 Index p. 369 About the Book p. 381.