Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
About the Book Series
This series is concerned with recent political developments in the region. It will have a range of different approaches and include both single authored monographs and edited volumes covering issues such as international relations, foreign intervention, security, political Islam, democracy, ideology and public policy.
Arms Control and Iranian Foreign Policy: Diplomacy of Discontent
1st Edition
By Bobi Pirseyedi
May 31, 2017
Since 2003, when the world learned that the Islamic Republic of Iran had succeeded in secretly developing a capability to enrich uranium and separate plutonium, the question of Iran’s nuclear program has ranked high on the international political and arms control agenda. This book studies the IRI’s...
Patronage Politics in Egypt: The National Democratic Party and Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo
1st Edition
By Mohamed Fahmy Menza
May 31, 2017
Between the military takeover of 1952 and the collapse of the Mubarak regime in 2011, the political system of Egypt depended upon a variety of mechanisms and structures to establish and consolidate its powerbase. Among those, an intricate web of what could be described as ‘patronage politics’ ...
The UN and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: American Hegemony and UN Intervention since 1947
1st Edition
By Danilo Di Mauro
May 31, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the United Nations intervention in the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1947. In his structured and exhaustive analysis, the author presents a long term perspective on the UN intervention in the conflict and explains its evolution during the ...
Sacred Space in Israel and Palestine: Religion and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Marshall Breger, Yitzhak Reiter, Leonard Hammer
May 24, 2017
Religion and religious nationalism have long played a central role in many ethnic and national conflicts, and the importance of religion to national identity means that territorial disputes can often focus on the contestation of holy places and sacred territory. Looking at the case of Israel and ...
Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa: Aftermath of the Arab Spring
1st Edition
Edited
By Moha Ennaji
December 14, 2016
Investigating the connections between multiculturalism, minorities, citizenship, and democracy in North Africa, this book argues that multiculturalism in this region– and in the Arab world at large – has reached a significant level in terms of scale and importance. In the rest of the world, there ...
Contemporary Kemalism: From Universal Secular-Humanism to Extreme Turkish Nationalism
1st Edition
By Toni Alaranta
November 07, 2016
The nature and content of Kemalist ideology in Turkey during the last twenty years is analysed in this book. In order to place the current manifestations of this Turkish official modernising ideology in the two-part context of globalisation and the re-sacralisation of the world, Contemporary ...
Arab Regionalism: A Post-Structural Perspective
1st Edition
By Silvia Ferabolli
November 03, 2016
Arab regionalism details and examines the power relations involved in the making of an Arab region. On an empirical level, this book concentrates on the drawing of topographic and ideational boundaries in the Arab region, on Arab regional organizations, on the functional cooperation among Arab ...
Everyday Arab Identity: The Daily Reproduction of the Arab World
1st Edition
By Christopher Phillips
August 26, 2016
Whether through government propaganda or popular transnational satellite television channels, Arab citizens encounter a discourse that reinforces a sense of belonging to their own state and a broader Arab world on a daily basis. Looking through the lens of nationalism theory, this book examines how...
Modern Middle East Authoritarianism: Roots, Ramifications, and Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Noureddine Jebnoun, Mehrdad Kia, Mimi Kirk
June 08, 2015
While the Arab uprisings have overturned the idea of Arab "exceptionalism," or the acceptance of authoritarianism, better analysis of authoritarianism’s resilience in pre- and post-uprising scenarios is still needed. Modern Middle East Authoritarianism: Roots, Ramifications, and Crisis undertakes ...
Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey: Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue
1st Edition
Edited
By Marlies Casier, Joost Jongerden
March 31, 2015
This book examines some of the most pressing issues facing the Turkish political establishment, in particular the issues of political Islam, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalisms. The authors explore the rationales of the main political actors in Turkey in order to increase our understanding of the ...
Public Management in Israel: Development, Structure, Functions and Reforms
1st Edition
By Itzhak Galnoor
February 27, 2015
As government management in Israel is gradually replaced by private sector management, it is becoming apparent that the collective-oriented mission of government cannot be fulfilled by the private sector or by the non-profit organizations of civil society. This book provides an analysis of the ...
Democracy in the Arab World: Explaining the Deficit
1st Edition
Edited
By Ibrahim Elbadawi, Samir Makdisi
December 04, 2014
Despite notable socio-economic development in the Arab region, a deficit in democracy and political rights has continued to prevail. This book examines the major reasons underlying the persistence of this democracy deficit over the past decades and touches on the prospects for deepening the ...