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  • America's Middle East

    The Ruination of a Region

    by Marc Lynch ...
    After Hamas' shocking 2023 attack on Israel, the United States stood firmly behind Israel's near-genocidal war on Gaza, despite widespread moral outrage and significant damage to Washington's global agenda. But Gaza is only the latest paradox in thirty-five years of Middle East policy. How did this pattern develop, why can't policymakers learn from repeated Middle Eastern calamities, and what does ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Voices of the New Arab Public

    Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today

    by Marc Lynch ...
    Al-Jazeera and other satellite television stations have transformed Arab politics over the last decade. By shattering state control over information and giving a platform to long-stifled voices, these new Arab media have challenged the status quo by encouraging open debate about Iraq, Palestine, Islamism, Arab identity, and other vital political and social issues. These public arguments have ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The New Arab Wars

    Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East

    by Marc Lynch ...
    Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed states, and civil wars. Egypt's epochal transition to democracy ended in a violent military coup. Yemen and Libya collapsed into civil war, while Bahrain erupted in smothering sectarian repression. Syria proved the greatest victim of all, ripped apart by ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Arab Uprising

    The Unfinished Revolutions of the New Middle East

    by Marc Lynch ...
    Barely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East, overthrowing long-ruling dictators and transforming the region's politics almost beyond recognition. But the biggest transformations of what has been labeled as the "Arab Spring" are yet to come.An insider to both American policy and the world of the Arab public ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What is the Middle East?

    The Theory and Practice of Regions

    by Marc Lynch ...
    Series series Elements in Middle East Politics
    The Middle East has traditionally been understood as a world region by policy, political science, and the public. Its borders are highly ambiguous, however, and rarely explicitly justified or theorized. This Element examines how the current conception of the Middle East emerged from colonialism and the Cold War, placing it within both global politics and trends within American higher education. It ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The One State Reality

    What Is Israel/Palestine?

    Edited by Michael Barnett, Nathan J. Brown, Marc Lynch, Shibley Telhami ...
    The One State Reality argues that a one state reality already predominates in the territories controlled by the state of Israel. The editors show that starting with the one state reality rather than hoping for a two state solution reshapes how we regard the conflict, what we consider acceptable and unacceptable solutions, and how we discuss difficult normative questions. The One State Reality ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Political Science of the Middle East

    Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings

    Edited by Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, Sean Yom ...
    A definitive overview of what political scientists are working on within the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab Uprisings of 2011-12 catalyzed a new wave of rigorous, deeply informed research on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In The Political Science of the Middle East, Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom present the definitive overview of this pathbreaking ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Islamic Democratic Discourse

    Theory, Debates, and Philosophical Perspectives

    by Tarek Ramadan, Tamara Sonn, Asma Afsaruddin, Osman Bakar, Ozlem Denli, Mahgoub El-tigani Mahmoud, Carolyn Fleuhr, Ali Paya, Abdulaziz Sachedina, Marc Lynch, Abdelwahab El-Affendi ...
    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    There is a growing consensus among experts and the educated public alike that democratization will reduce the many problems of the Muslim world. The question that remains is how Islam should be incorporated into the public sphere. Islamic Democratic Discourse is in itself a dialogue that explores the multi-faceted relationship between Islam and democracy. Each chapter, by a preeminent scholar of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Arab Uprisings Explained

    New Contentious Politics in the Middle East

    Edited by Marc Lynch ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
    Why did Tunisian protests following the self-immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi lead to a massive wave of uprisings across the entire Arab world? Who participated in those protests, and what did they hope to achieve? Why did some leaders fall in the face of popular mobilization while others found ways to survive? And what have been the lasting results of the contentious politics of 2011 and 2012? The ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

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  • Temptations of Power

    Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East

    by Shadi Hamid ...
    In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than ... Read more

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  • Civilization

    The West and the Rest

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    **From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower“A dazzling history of Western ideas.”—The Economist“Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal“[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe**Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important ... Read more

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  • Revolutionary Life

    The Everyday of the Arab Spring

    by Asef Bayat ...
    From a leading scholar of the Middle East and North Africa comes a new way of thinking about the Arab Spring and the meaning of revolution.From the standpoint of revolutionary politics, the Arab Spring can seem like a wasted effort. In Tunisia, where the wave of protest began, as well as in Egypt and the Gulf, regime change never fully took hold. Yet if the Arab Spring failed to disrupt the ... Read more

    $29.59 USD