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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mohammad waseem”
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  • Pakistan's Political Parties

    Surviving between Dictatorship and Democracy

    by Mariam Mufti, Sahar Shafqat, Niloufer Siddiqui, Saeed Shafqat, Philip Jones, Tabinda M. Khan, Tahir Naqvi, Anushay Malik0, Johann Chacko1, Asad Liaqat2, Ali Cheema3, Shandana Khan Mohmand4, Hassan Javid5, Sarah Khan6, Sameen Mohsin Ali7, Ayesha Siddiqa8, Yasser Kureshi9, Christopher Clary0, Mohammad Waseem1 ...
    Series series South Asia in World Affairs series
    Pakistan’s 2018 general elections marked the second successful transfer of power from one elected civilian government to another—a remarkable achievement considering the country’s history of dictatorial rule. Pakistan’s Political Parties examines how the civilian side of the state’s current regime has survived the transition to democracy, providing critical insight into the evolution of political ... Read more

    $44.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Political Conflict in Pakistan

    by Mohammad Waseem ...
    This book is a major reinterpretation of politics in Pakistan. Its focus is conflict among groups, communities, classes, ideologies and institutions, which has shaped the country's political dynamics. Mohammad Waseem critically examines the theory surrounding the millennium-long conflict between Hindus and Muslims as separate nations who practiced mingled faiths, and the Hindu, Muslim and Sikh ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • Egypt after Mubarak

    Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World

    by Bruce K. Rutherford ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Egypt's autocratic regime is being weakened by economic crises, growing political opposition, and the pressures of globalization. Observers now wonder which way Egypt will go when the country's aging president, Husni Mubarak, passes from the scene: will it embrace Western-style liberalism and democracy? Or will it become an Islamic theocracy similar to Iran? Egypt after Mubarak demonstrates that ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • India, Pakistan, and Democracy

    Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths

    by Philip Oldenburg ...
    The question of why some countries have democratic regimes and others do not is a significant issue in comparative politics. This book looks at India and Pakistan, two countries with clearly contrasting political regime histories, and presents an argument on why India is a democracy and Pakistan is not. Focusing on the specificities and the nuances of each state system, the author examines in ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Contemporary Politics in the Middle East

    by Beverley Milton-Edwards ...
    The fourth edition of this dynamic and popular text provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East. Fully revised and updated throughout, it features a new chapter on the Arab Spring and its aftermath, plus a wide range of vibrant case studies, data, questions for class discussion and suggestions for further reading.Purposefully employing a clear thematic ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Arab Spring: The Making of the New Middle East

    by Hichem Karoui ...
    This is a collection of essays written about the Arab revolts, and trying to answer the questions many people are raising: why did such revolts occur? Were they preceded by precursory signs? What role played the domestic political elite in toppling the dictators? What role played the foreign powers? What were the claims of the protesters? Were they manipulated? How about the political process that ... Read more

    $11.60 USD

  • Revolution without Revolutionaries

    Making Sense of the Arab Spring

    by Asef Bayat ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact. In this book, noted author Asef Bayat—whose Life as Politics anticipated the Arab Spring—uncovers ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Arab Winter

    A Tragedy

    by Noah Feldman ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceWhy the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrongThe Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East. Yet everywhere except Tunisia it led to either renewed dictatorship, civil war, extremist terror, or all three. In The Arab Winter, Noah Feldman argues that the Arab Spring was neverthel... ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey

    by M. Hakan Yavuz ...
    Series Book 28 - Cambridge Middle East Studies
    In 2002 the Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept to power in Turkey. Since then it has shied away from a hard-line ideological stance in favour of a more conservative and democratic approach. In this book, M. Hakan Yavuz negotiates this ambivalence asking whether it is possible for a political party with a deeply religious ideology to liberalise and entertain democracy or whether, as ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Life as Politics

    How Ordinary People Change the Middle East, Second Edition

    by Asef Bayat ...
    Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politics, Asef Bayat argues that such presumptions fail to recognize the routine, yet important, ways in which ordinary people make meaningful change through everyday actions. First published just months before the Arab Spring swept across the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics in Southwest Asia

    Pakistan and Afghanistan since 9/11

    by Iftikhar H. Malik ...
    Series series Anthem Middle East Studies
    ‘Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics in Southwest Asia’ brings together Pakistan and Afghanistan as two inseparable entities by investigating areas such as the evolution and persistence of the Taliban, quest for Pashtun identity, the ambivalent status of the tribal region and the state of civic clusters on both sides. In addition to their relations with the United States and the EU, a due attention ... Read more

    $21.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dispatches from the Arab Spring

    Understanding the New Middle East

    Edited by Paul Amar, Vijay Prashad ...
    The Arab Spring unleashed forces of liberation and social justice that swept across North Africa and the Middle East with unprecedented speed, ferocity, and excitement. Although the future of the democratic uprisings against oppressive authoritarian regimes remains uncertain in many places, the revolutionary wave that started in Tunisia in December 2010 has transformed how the world sees Arab ... Read more

    $16.99 USD