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“ali vaez”

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  • How Sanctions Work

    Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare

    by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Ali Vaez ...
    Sanctions have enormous consequences. Especially when imposed by a country with the economic influence of the United States, sanctions induce clear shockwaves in both the economy and political culture of the targeted state, and in the everyday lives of citizens. But do economic sanctions induce the behavioral changes intended? Do sanctions work in the way they should?To answer these questions, the ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

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  • Lineages of Revolt

    Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East

    by Adam Hanieh ...
    While the outcomes of the tumultuous uprisings that continue to transfix the Arab world remain uncertain, the root causes of rebellion persist. Drawing upon extensive empirical research, Lineages of Revolt tracks the major shifts in the region’s political economy over recent decades. In this illuminating and original work, Adam Hanieh explores the contours of neoliberal policies, dynamics of class ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Saudi Arabia on the Edge

    by Thomas W. Lippman ...
    Of all the countries in the world that are vital to the strategic and economic interests of the United States, Saudi Arabia is the least understood by the American people. Saudi Arabias unique place in Islam makes it indispensable to a constructive relationship between the non-Muslim West and the Muslim world. For all its wealth, the country faces daunting challenges that it lacks the tools to ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • War Crimes

    How Warlords, Politicians, Foreign Governments and Aid Agencies Conspired to Create a Failed State in Somalia

    by Rasna Warah ...
    In War Crimes Kenyan journalist Rasna Warah exposes how foreign governments and humanitarian agencies conspired to keep Somalia in a permanent state of under-development and conflict and how Somali politicians, warlords, clan-based fiefdoms and terrorists benefited from the ensuing chaos and anarchy. The book is about the many war crimes that have taken place in Somalia in the name of peace, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Egypt

    by Robert Springborg ...
    Series series Hot Spots in Global Politics
    Egypt is one of the few great empires of antiquity that exists today as a nation state. Despite its extraordinary record of national endurance, the pressures to which Egypt currently is subjected and which are bound to intensify are already straining the ties that hold its political community together, while rendering ever more difficult the task of governing it.In this timely book, leading expert ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Arab Spring and the Gulf States

    Time to embrace change

    by Mohamed Althani ...
    The most challenging question today for the citizens of any country in the Gulf region is whether it is heading in the right direction to become a durable, sustainable system, fully supported by its people and capable of being defended from internal and external threats. In The Arab Spring and the Gulf States, Mohamed A. J. Althani, a former minister in the Qatari government, analyses the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Saving Iraq

    Rebuilding a Broken Nation

    by Nemir Kirdar ...
    Nemir Kirdar has lived Iraq's history. From the country of his youth - a stable and vibrant land of great promise, to the 1958 coup that plunged Iraq into a period of terror and destruction, foreign occupation, and the fall of Saddam Hussein, he's been uniquely placed to comment on events and propose solutions.Now Kirdar shares his vision for tomorrow's Iraq, providing a blueprint for political, ... Read more

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  • IRAN: The Rise of the Revolutionary Guards' Financial Empire

    How the Supreme Leader and the IRGC Rob the People to Fund International Terror

    by NCRI- U.S. Representative Office ...
    This manuscript examines some vital factors and trends, including the overwhelming and accelerating influence (especially since 2005) of the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).This study shows how ownership of property in various spheres of the economy is gradually shifted from the population writ large towards a minority ruling elite comprised of the Supreme Leader’s ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A Political Economy of the Middle East

    by Melani Cammett ...
    A Political Economy of the Middle East is the most comprehensive analysis of developments in the political economy of the region over the past several decades, examining the interaction of economic development processes, state systems and policies, and social actors in the Middle East.The fourth edition, with new authors Melani Cammett and Ishac Diwan, has been thoroughly revised, with two new ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers

    The Rise of the Arab Gulf

    by Rory Miller ...
    An expert in Arab Gulf politics offers a revealing analysis of the region's stunning rise to global power and the challenges it confronts today.Once just sleepy desert sheikdoms, the Arab Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait now exert unprecedented influence on international affairs—the result of their almost unimaginable riches in oil and gas. In ... Read more

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  • The Art of Sanctions

    A View from the Field

    by Richard Nephew ...
    Series series Center on Global Energy Policy Series
    Nations and international organizations are increasingly using sanctions as a means to achieve their foreign policy aims. However, sanctions are ineffective if they are executed without a clear strategy responsive to the nature and changing behavior of the target. In The Art of Sanctions, Richard Nephew offers a much-needed practical framework for planning and applying sanctions that focuses not ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Spoils of Truce

    Corruption and State-Building in Postwar Lebanon

    by Reinoud Leenders ...
    In Spoils of Truce, Reinoud Leenders documents the extensive corruption that accompanied the reconstruction of Lebanon after the end of a decade and a half of civil war. With the signing of the Ta'if peace accord in 1989, the rebuilding of the country's shattered physical infrastructure and the establishment of a functioning state apparatus became critical demands. Despite the urgent needs of its ... Read more

    $38.69 USD