Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of Middle East politics / edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh (Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia).

Publication

• Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

Akbarzadeh, Shahram

Description

xii, 403 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"This Handbook uses a comprehensive study of political institutions, social movements and external pressures to offer nuanced study of politics in the Middle East. Foremost scholars on the Middle East examine key themes such as political change, regional rivalry and authoritarianism, making this collection very timely and relevant as an authoritative source. Throughout history, the Middle East has been subject to high levels of political upheaval, revolutions, interstate and intrastate conflict and population dislocation. Charting the ongoing disruptions to authoritarianism in the Middle East, chapters consider the internal logic of the divide between state and society, the continued disregard for societal needs, and the suppression of legitimate grievances, all of which would indicate further and future upheavals. The Handbook engages with questions of political legitimacy and popular aspirations, energy and environmental security, foreign power interests and political ideologies to present a well-rounded picture of a dynamic region. Readers will find this book rich in original and measured insights. Incorporating development studies, politics and public policy and political geography, this Handbook provides scholars and students with compelling insights into Middle Eastern politics"--

Series Statement

Elgar handbooks in political science

Uniform Title

Elgar handbooks in political science

Subject

• Political science > Middle East
• Politics and government
• Middle East > Politics and government > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Middle East > Foreign relations
• Middle East > Politics and government
• Moyen-Orient > Politique et gouvernement
• Moyen-Orient > Politique et gouvernement > Guides, manuels, etc
• Moyen-Orient > Relations extérieures
• Middle East

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Fault lines in Middle East politics / Shahram Akbarzadeh -- 2. Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa / Roel Meijer -- 3. Political Islam: a 40-year retrospective / Nader Hashemi -- 4. The power of ideology in the Middle East and its limits / Mohammed M. Hafez -- 5. Political parties in the Middle East: the unsolved problem of collective action / Marina Ottaway -- 6. Far-right populists in power and transnational repression of dissidents / Ihsan Yilmaz -- 7. Varieties of feminisms in the Middle East and North Africa / Valentine M. Moghadam -- 8. The political system in Iran: theocratic electoral authoritarianism / Shahram Akbarzadeh and Arif Saba -- 9. Where is Iranian politics? Between state and nation, inside and outside the polity / Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany -- 10. Saudi Arabia's centralized political structure: prospects and challenges / Eman Alhussein -- 11. Bourdieu's social theory and the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran / Simon Mabon -- 12. External powers in the Middle East: views from within the region / Guy Burton -- 13. Us foreign policy toward the Middle East / Mahmood Monshipouri and Manochehr Dorraj -- 14. China's uneasy balancing in the Persian Gulf / Jonathan Fulton -- 15. A new regional fault line: the Middle East divided in search of a post-revolutionary order / Andreas Krieg -- 16. The political economies of the Arab Gulf states: policies for change, frameworks for stasis / Matthew Gray -- 17. Lebanon: politics as permanent crisis / Filippo Dionigi -- 18. "People, army, resistance": the end of Hizbullah's legacy / Mariam Farida -- 19. Palestine and international intervention / Dana El Kurd -- 20. Captured politics under colonial dominance: the case of Palestine / Basem Ezbidi -- 21. International talks in the Syrian conflict: a continuation of war by other means? / Bente Scheller -- 22. Globalized finance capital, hegemony and the Middle East: through the lens of radical political economy / Raymond Hinnebusch -- 23. Environmental security in the Middle East and North Africa: approaches, policy patterns and activism trends / Giulia Cimini -- Index.

ISBN

• 1802205624
• 9781802205626
• 9781802205633 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2023943156

OCLC

• 1374295888
• on1374295888
• SCSB-14674170

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library