Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government
About the Book Series
This series examines new ways of understanding democratization and government in the Middle East. The varied and uneven processes of change, occurring in the Middle Eastern region, can no longer be read and interpreted solely through the prism of Euro-American transitology. Seeking to frame critical parameters in light of these new horizons, this series instigates reinterpretations of democracy and propagates formerly ‘subaltern,’ narratives of democratization. Reinvigorating discussion on how Arab and Middle Eastern peoples and societies seek good government, Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Democratization and Government provides tests and contests of old and new assumptions.
Palestine in EU and Russian Foreign Policy: Statehood and the Peace Process
1st Edition
By Malath Alagha
December 12, 2019
The establishment of a Palestinian state has long been a strategic objective of EU and Russian foreign policy in the Middle East. However, over a decade after the creation of the road-map, the establishment of an independent Palestinian state has still not been achieved. Palestine in EU and Russian...
Sectarianism in Iraq: The Making of State and Nation Since 1920
1st Edition
By Khalil Osman
December 12, 2019
This book links sectarianism in Iraq to the failure of the modern nation-state to resolve tensions between sectarian identities and concepts of unified statehood and uniform citizenry. After a theoretical excursus that recasts the notion of primordial identity as a socially constructed reality, the...
The Arab Lobby and the US: Factors for Success and Failure
1st Edition
By Dania Koleilat Khatib
December 12, 2019
All the components needed to construct an Arab lobby exist; the significant Arab Diaspora in the US, the historic strategic relationship between Arab Gulf States and the US, and the Gulf’s economic wealth. However, lobbying is alien to Arab culture and largely absent from its political landscape. ...
Tunisia's International Relations since the 'Arab Spring': Transition Inside and Out
1st Edition
Edited
By Tasnim Abderrahim, Laura-Theresa Krüger, Salma Besbes, Katharina McLarren
December 12, 2019
When popular protests started in Tunisia in late 2010, few anticipated the implications these events would have for the entire Arab region. In the following years, this region witnessed deep changes, increased divisions, and even failing states. Meanwhile, Tunisia managed to assert itself as a new ...
US Hard Power in the Arab World: Resistance, the Syrian Uprising and the War on Terror
1st Edition
By Layla Saleh
May 07, 2019
Neither stability nor change in the post-colonial Arab world can be fully understood without considering the international context, and American Foreign policy in particular. However, the exact nature of America’s presence in the Arab world, and the scope and modes of its influence, all appear to ...
Hamas and the Media: Politics and Strategy
1st Edition
By Wael Abdelal
December 19, 2018
The Islamic resistance movement ‘Hamas’ is, arguably, one of the most important Palestinian organizations in recent decades. Since Hamas' establishment, it has extensively utilized media as a means of mobilization for its political and ideological agendas, and its tactics have undergone a ...
Politics of the Islamic Tradition: The Thought of Muhammad Al-Ghazali
1st Edition
By Mohammed Moussa
September 27, 2018
Over the last two centuries the Muslim world has undergone dramatic transformations, impacting the Islamic tradition and throwing into question our understanding of tradition. The notion of tradition as an unmoving edifice is contradicted by the very process of its transmission, and the complex ...
Egyptians in Revolt: The Political Economy of Labor and Student Mobilizations 1919–2011
1st Edition
By Adel Ghafar
August 14, 2018
Egyptians in Revolt investigates the political economy of the Egyptian labor and student movements. Using elements of social movement theory within a broad political economy framework, it assesses labor and student mobilizations in four eras of contemporary Egyptian history: the pre-1952 era, the ...
Al Jazeera and Democratization: The Rise of the Arab Public Sphere
1st Edition
By Ezzeddine Abdelmoula
December 13, 2017
Al Jazeera and Democratization analyses the increasing role of the media in political transformations with a special emphasis on the Arab world. Taking the Al Jazeera media network as a case study, the author explains how engaging the public and providing platforms for open debate and free ...
Political and Constitutional Transitions in North Africa: Actors and Factors
1st Edition
Edited
By Justin Frosini, Francesco Biagi
December 13, 2017
The transformations which are taking place in the Arab world are dynamic processes characterised by a number of variables that one can refer to as actors and factors. The implications of the Arab uprisings are important for the world at large; the Arab world’s successes, and failures, at this ...
Oil States in the New Middle East: Uprisings and stability
1st Edition
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By Kjetil Selvik, Bjørn Olav Utvik
June 16, 2017
Oil has been central to regime survival for oil states across the Arabian Peninsula and has been at the heart of their attempts to defuse the wave of Arab revolutions. However, in 2011 revolution hit Libya, the most oil dependent regime in the Middle East. The political storm winds that have swept ...
Sufism and Politics in Morocco: Activism and Dissent
1st Edition
By Abdelilah Bouasria
May 24, 2017
Presenting a political history and sociology of Moroccan Sufism from colonialism to the modern day, this book studies the Sufi model of Master and Disciple in relation to social and political life, comparing the different eras of acquiescent versus dissident Sufism. This comparative fieldwork ...