Middle East Politics

The implications of the Arab uprisings are important for the world at large; the Arab world’s successes, and failures, at this crucial moment may well serve as a model for other nations. Political and Constitutional Transitions in North Africa focuses on five Northern African countries; Tunisia, Egy..

This book examines the transition processes unleashed by the uprisings that took place in Egypt and Tunisia in 2011. It contributes to exploring institutional changes and continuities in the two countries taken individually and comparatively, as a way of advancing our knowledge on the Arab world, an..

This book proposes conceptual and empirical insights into the dynamics of the local, national and trans-national formation of civility in contemporary Middle Eastern polities.  Challenging conventional ‘western’ perspectives on civility, it analyses the everyday formation of Islamic and secular subj..

This book proposes conceptual and empirical insights into the dynamics of the local, national and trans-national formation of civility in contemporary Middle Eastern polities.  Challenging conventional ‘western’ perspectives on civility, it analyses the everyday formation of Islamic and secular subj..

_x005F_x005F_x000D_ Political Conflict and Exclusion in Jerusalem offers a detailed description of the structure of the education sector in East Jerusalem with its four main providers; the Palestinian Authority through Awqaf schools, the Israeli Authority through municipal schools, the United Nation..

_x000D_ Political Conflict and Exclusion in Jerusalem offers a detailed description of the structure of the education sector in East Jerusalem with its four main providers; the Palestinian Authority through Awqaf schools, the Israeli Authority through municipal schools, the United Nations Relief and..

This book examines Rawls’s theory of political liberalism in the context of Muslim societies, where religion wields a significant social and political influence. Contrasting a sociological analysis with a theoretical approach, the author explores the political questions brought up by religious indiv..

One of the implications of Orientalism is that the Arab world, as a homogenous entity, is often analysed as an anomaly within the international system. This book argues that, despite their differences, societies across the globe ultimately construct their own history according to very similar dynami..

One of the implications of Orientalism is that the Arab world, as a homogenous entity, is often analysed as an anomaly within the international system. This book argues that, despite their differences, societies across the globe ultimately construct their own history according to very similar dynami..

_x005F_x000D_ Political Violence and Kurds in Turkey examines how political violence impacts Kurds in contemporary Turkey, and explores the circumstances that move human beings to violent acts. It looks at the forms political violence takes and in which times and spaces it occurs, as well as the rol..

A longtime bestseller, Politics and Change in the Middle East employs a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensively and evenhandedly study the region’s past, present, and future.  Through politics, economics, culture, and history, this text offers a rugged analytical framework that familiarizes st..

In this insightful,beautifully written work, one of America's most important feminist ecological thinkers reflects on the roots of modernity in Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, Spretnak argues that an "ecological postmodern" ethos is emerging in..