Routledge Library Editions: Politics of the Middle East
The Role of the Military in Politics: A Case Study of Iraq to 1941
1st Edition
By Mohammad A. Tarbush
December 14, 2016
This book, first published in 1982, attempts to explain how and why Iraqi military intervened in the affairs of state between 1936 and 1941. The intention is not to describe the various coups of this period, but to explain the gradual assumption of a political role by the Iraqi army and the ...
Electoral Politics in the Middle East: Issues, Voters and Elites
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacob M. Landau, Ergun Özbudun, Frank Tachau
December 13, 2016
Comparative political study of the Middle East got off to a late start. Unlike any previous studies in comparative politics, this book, first published in 1980, represents an important methodological advance in that it proceeds by themes rather than by countries, and uniquely focuses on three major...
Food, Development, and Politics in the Middle East
1st Edition
By Marvin G. Weinbaum
December 13, 2016
As the reality of a food deficit emerged in the Middle East, rural society and the agricultural sector – once viewed as peripheral to national development – swiftly rose up the policy agendas of nearly every Middle East country. This book, first published in 1982, looks at the complex ...
Lebanon: The Fragmented Nation
1st Edition
By David C. Gordon
December 13, 2016
Even up to the eve of the civil war, some observers saw the Lebanese system as essentially stable, and exhibiting some of the virtues of liberty and pluralism which had been commended by the French traveller de Volney a century before. But for others its structure was so seriously flawed as to be ...
Pan-Islam: History and Politics
1st Edition
By Jacob M. Landau
December 13, 2016
Few ideas have excited such passions over the years as Pan-Islam, and few have been the subject of so many contradictory interpretations. Based on a shared religious sentiment, the politics of Muslim unity and solidarity have had to contend with the impact of both secularism and nationalism. ...
Parliaments and Parties in Egypt
1st Edition
By Jacob M. Landau
December 13, 2016
Egypt was the first Arabic-speaking country to throw off the yoke of Turkish rule, with an attendant growth in European influence. The impact of the West was most obvious in the political-constitutional field, with the gradual adoption of Western patterns of government and political life. This book...
Soviet Strategy in the Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By George W. Breslauer
December 13, 2016
Few regions of the world are as politically turbulent as the Middle East, and nowhere is the potential for superpower conflict greater. How does the Soviet Union view the Middle east conflict? Can the USSR play a constructive role in the peace process? In this volume, first published in 1990, these...
The Arabs and the West
1st Edition
By Clare Hollingworth
December 13, 2016
This volume by acclaimed war reporter Clare Hollingworth , first published in 1952, surveys the politics of an area which has produced, and is likely to produce, more wars that it can consume locally. After a historical opening, about the general situation during and after the war, the author ...
The Soviet Union and Arab Nationalism, 1917-1966
1st Edition
By Hashim S.H. Behbehani
December 13, 2016
China’s foreign policy in the Arab world is important because it reflects China’s general foreign policy. In this study, first published in 1981, the author draws upon a wealth of previously unpublished and inaccessible material to analyse Chinese attitudes in three cases: the two Arab liberation ...
United States Foreign Policy and the Middle East/North Africa: A Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Research
1st Edition
By Sanford R. Silverburg, Bernard Reich
December 13, 2016
This book consists of western, primarily English, language sources published through 1988 and early 1989 concerning foreign policy toward the Middle East and North Africa during the twentieth century....
Routledge Library Editions: Politics of the Middle East
1st Edition
By Various
July 20, 2015
This is a collection of titles written by a range of international authors that seeks to get at the heart of the political experience in the Middle East, an endeavour that is as crucial today as it was when these books were first published....