State, Power & Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East, 2nd Edition

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 11
Preface......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 15
List of abbreviations......Page 16
States and state building......Page 18
Introduction......Page 20
The end of empires: the emergence of the modern Middle Eastern states......Page 25
The growth of state power in the Arab world: the single-party regimes......Page 44
The growth of state power in the Arab world under family rule, and the Libyan alternative......Page 62
Arab nationalism, Arab unity and the practice of intra-Arab state relations......Page 81
State and politics in Israel, Iran and Turkey from the Second World War......Page 101
The remaking of the Middle Eastern political environment after the Gulf War......Page 120
Themes in contemporary Middle Eastern politics......Page 138
Introduction......Page 140
The politics of economic restructuring......Page 142
Parties, elections and the vexed question of democracy in the Arab world......Page 164
The politics of religious revival......Page 190
The military in and out of politics......Page 215
Some important non-state actors......Page 238
Conclusion: the Middle East at the end of the twentieth century......Page 256
Select bibliography......Page 267
Index......Page 272