Rethinking Middle East Politics

Rethinking Middle East Politics
Author: Simon Bromley
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780292708167

Rethinking Middle East Politics considers a range of debates on the character of political and socioeconomic development in the Middle East, focusing on the linked processes of state formation and capitalist development. Simon Bromley seeks to reformulate the central questions involved in the study of state formation. He builds a comparative framework based on an examination of key developmental processes in Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Iran and offers a range of substantive theses on the place of democracy and Islam in the region. His findings explain a very large part of what appears to be significant in the emergence of the modern Middle East. Rethinking Middle East Politics presents a new way of analyzing politics in the Middle East, offering a perspective that has major implications for rethinking Third World politics more generally and for the social and political theory of modernity.

Rethinking the Middle East

Rethinking the Middle East
Author: Efraim Karsh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2003
Genre: Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN: 9780714683461

Karsh contends that the influence of the Great Powers has not been the primary force behind the Middle East's political development, nor the main cause of its famous volatility.

Rethinking Political Islam

Rethinking Political Islam
Author: Shadi Hamid
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2017
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190649208

Rethinking Political Islam offers a fine-grained and definitive overview of the changing world of political Islam in the post-Arab Uprising era.

Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East

Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East
Author: James P. Jankowski
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1997
Genre: Arab countries
ISBN: 9780231106955

The fourteen original essays in this volume explore the psychological, political, and cultural bases of Arab nationalism since World War I and are arranged around broad themes of study: academic constructions of nationalist history, nationalist presentations of Arab histories, conflict among competing nationalist visions, and more.

Rethinking Statehood in the Middle East and North Africa

Rethinking Statehood in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Abel Polese
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429602146

Alternative forms of government and statehood exist in the Middle East and North African regions. The chapters in this volume demonstrate this and explore the notion of power from a non-statist perspective, highlighting the limits of states and their governance. Using empirical evidence from Syria, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, Yemen, and Mali, the authors explore non-standard cases where power may be retained by a state but must be shared with a number of local actors, resulting in limited statehood and hybrid governance, which leads to competition and sharing of symbolic and political power within a state. This book is intended to prompt a critical reflection on the meaning of governance. It will illuminate informal structures which deserve attention when studying governance and power dynamics within a state or a region. This book was originally published as a special issue of Small Wars & Insurgencies.

Rethinking Peacebuilding

Rethinking Peacebuilding
Author: Karin Aggestam
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0415525039

This book presents new theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the problematique of building just and durable peace. Linking peace and justice has sparked lively debates about the dilemmas and trade-offs in several contemporary peace processes. Despite the fact that justice and peace are commonly referred to there is surprisingly little research and few conceptualizations of the interplay between the two. This edited volume is the result of three years of collaborative research and draws upon insights from such disciplines as peace and conflict, international law, political science and international relations. It contains policy-relevant knowledge about effective peacebuilding strategies, as well as an in-depth analysis of the contemporary peace processes in the Middle East and the Western Balkans. Using a variety of theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches, the work makes an original contribution to the growing literature on peacebuilding. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, Middle Eastern Politics, European Politics and IR/Security Studies.

The Middle East

The Middle East
Author: Bernard Lewis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 0684807122

A 2000-year history of a region stretching from Libya to Central Asia ; concludes with the effects of the Gulf War.

Rethinking the Resource Curse

Rethinking the Resource Curse
Author: Benjamin Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2021-04-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108788033

This Element documents the diversity and dissensus of scholarship on the political resource curse, diagnoses its sources, and directs scholarly attention towards what the authors believe will be more fruitful avenues of future research. In the scholarship to date, there is substantial regional heterogeneity and substantial evidence denying the existence of a political resource curse. This dissensus is located in theory, measure, and research design, especially regarding measurement error and endogenous selection. The work then turns to strategies for reconnecting research on resource politics to the broader literature on democratic development. Finally, the results of the authors' own research is presented, showing that a set of historically contingent events in the Middle East and North Africa are at the root of what has been mistaken for a global political resource curse.

Rethinking China, the Middle East and Asia in a 'Multiplex World'

Rethinking China, the Middle East and Asia in a 'Multiplex World'
Author: Mojtaba Mahdavi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2022-03-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004510001

The contemporary Sino-MENA-Asia relations and the Belt and Road Initiative are in the making in an emerging 'multiplex world'. This edited volume includes new researches in fifteen chapters, examining China’s complex relations with Iran, Turkey, Egypt, GCC, Pakistan, central and south Asia.

Rethinking Islamist Politics

Rethinking Islamist Politics
Author: Salwa Ismail
Publisher: Harvard Common Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2006-08-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781845111809

This text revisits the main arguments and explanatory frameworks that have been used since the 1970s to understand Islamic activism, moderate as well as militant and violent, and proposes a rethinking of Islamist politics.