Routledge handbook of Middle East politics

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1 Writing Middle East politics: A field in transit
I Knowledge frames and horizons
	2 Middle of where? East of what?: simulated postcoloniality’s assemblages, rhizomes, and simulacra
	3 Travelling the Middle East without a map: three main debates
	4 Literature in the Arab postcolony
	5 The primacy of fieldwork: inductive explorations of the MENA state
	6 Nationalism in the Arab Middle East: resolving some issues
	7 Studying the international relations of the Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf: a personal account and a theoretical overview
	8 Committed history: sticking to facts and adhering to principles
	9 Reimagining the Middle East and its place in the world
II Towards re-conceptualizations of the democratic and the authoritarian
	10 Survey research and the study of politics in the Arab world
	11 Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa: the trajectories of the MENA republics
	12 ‘Economic reform’ since the 1980s: the political corollaries of a political project
	13 Overcoming exceptionalism: party politics and voting behaviour in the Middle East and North Africa
	14 Elections in authoritarian contexts: the case of Algeria
III The secular and the religious: questions and contests
	15 The challenges of researching political Islam
	16 The other side of Middle Eastern studies: on democracy, violence and Islam
	17 Sectarian fault lines in the Middle East: sources of conflicts, or of communal bonds?
	18 The unseen in the Islamic awakening: walking with the Muslim Jesus
	19 Re-thinking shīʿī political theology
	20 Patronage in reverse and the secular state in Egypt
IV Gendered relations and realities: critical interpretations
	21 Gender and politics in the Middle East
	22 Islam and resistance in the Middle East: a methodology of Muslim struggle and the impact on women
	23 Gender, religion, and politics in Jewish and Muslim contexts: the case of Israel
	24 Gender: still a useful category to analyze Middle East political history? A view from Egypt (1919–2019)
V Borderline politics: claims and counter-claims
	25 Social movement studies and the Middle East
	26 Sports and politics: the turbulent world of Middle East soccer
	27 Various faces of violent radicalisation in the Syrian crisis: the case of Tripoli
	28 Reconceiving the struggle between non-state armed organizations, the state and ‘the international’ in the Middle East
	29 Start with the art: new ways of understanding the political in the Middle East
	30 Truth to power: on digital scene making
	31 Bread and its subsidy: some reflections
VI Conceptual categories: reflexive notes
	32 Distributive politics in the Middle East
	33 The rule of law in the contemporary Arab Middle East
	34 The politics of identity in the Middle East: rereading Arab nationalism
	35 On the intertwinement of the political and the intellectual in modern Arab history
	36 Studying the Middle East security sector: a conceptual framework
	37 Reflections on doing digital humanities in the context of the Middle East
	38 The theoretical and methodological traps in studying sectarianism in the Middle East: neo-primordialism and “clichéd constructivism”
	39 Tentative notes on Syria’s uprising: researching protest politics in the diaspora
VII Navigating the field: notes and outlooks
	40 Researching Iranian history and politics: a guide for the perplexed
	41 Investigating tribalism and civil society in Qatar
	42 Yemen: the case of politics, tribes, and instability
	43 Is sustainable development possible under occupation?: the case of Palestine
	44 Palestinian politics in one century, from Sykes-Picot to post-Oslo Accords: a time for a re-evaluation
	45 Concluding remarks: quandaries of researching Middle East politics
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