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  • Inside Afghanistan

    Political Networks, Informal Order, and State Disruption

    by Timor Sharan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book maps out how political networks and centres of power, engaged in patronage, corruption, and illegality, effectively constituted the Afghan state, often with the complicity of the U.S.-led military intervention and the internationally directed statebuilding project. It argues that politics and statehood in Afghanistan, in particular in the last two decades, including the ultimate collapse ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Modern Afghanistan

    The Impact of 40 Years of War

    by Sonia Ahsan, Parul Bakhshi, Bashir Ahmed Ansari, Just Boedeker, Noah Coburn, Andrea Chiovenda, Melissa Kerr Chiovenda, Amin Saikal, Fahim Masoud, M. Farshid Alemi Hakimyar, Khalid Homayun Nadiri, Anna Larson, Kylea Liese, Mohammad Omar Shariki, Wazhmah Osman, Ahmad Shayeq Qassem, Timor Sharan, Trani Jean-Francois, Robert L. Canfield ...
    What impact does 40 years of war, violence, and military intervention have on a country and its people? As the "global war on terror" now stretches into the 21st century with no clear end in sight, Identity and Politics in Modern Afghanistan collects the work of interdisciplinary scholars, aid workers, and citizens to assess the impact of this prolonged conflict on Afghanistan. Nearly all of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Protest and Revolution in the Arab World

    Edited by Fawaz A. Gerges ...
    The New Middle East is one of the first comprehensive books to critically examine the Arab popular uprisings of 2011–12. While these uprisings prompted a number of cursory publications, this volume contains meticulous and thoughtful reflections on the causes, drivers and effects of these seminal events on the internal, regional and international politics of the Middle East and North Africa. ... Read more

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  • Warlords, Strongman Governors, and the State in Afghanistan

    by Dipali Mukhopadhyay ...
    Warlords have come to represent enemies of peace, security, and 'good governance' in the collective intellectual imagination. This book asserts that not all warlords are created equal. Under certain conditions, some become effective governors on behalf of the state. This provocative argument is based on extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan, where Mukhopadhyay examined warlord-governors who have ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

    The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

    by Christopher Davidson ...
    The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps, fast-growing populations, and powerful modernising and globalising forces impacting on their largely conservative societies, they have ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa

    Money, War and the Business of Power

    by Alex de Waal ...
    The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and insurgents bargain over money and power, and use of war to achieve their goals.Drawing on a thirty-year career in Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia, including experience as a participant in high ... Read more

    $23.00 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

  • 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

  • Yemen in Crisis

    Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State

    by Helen Lackner ...
    Yemen is in the grip of its most severe crisis in years. The civil war between the Huthi rebels and the Western and Arab supporters of the regime has resulted in thousands killed and three million displaced. Those who remain suffer severe food shortages and a collapsed economy. The struggle for power in the Arab world's poorest but strategically vital nation has serious implications for the region ... Read more

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  • Why Yemen Matters

    A Society in Transition

    by Helen Lackner ...
    Series Book 10 - SOAS Middle East Issues
    In November 2011, an agreement brokered by the GCC brought an end to Yemen's tumultuous uprising. The National Dialogue Conference has opened a window of opportunity for change, bringing Yemen's main political forces together with groups that were politically marginalized. Yet, the risk of collapse is serious, and if Yemen is to remain a viable state, it must address numerous political, social and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War

    by Martin Plaut, Sarah Vaughan ...
    The ongoing war and consequent famine in the Ethiopian province of Tigray are increasingly critical. International journalists are not being allowed to travel to the region, which is almost completely sealed off from the outside world. This is a deliberate strategy by the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments prosecuting the war: their aim is to crush the Tigrayans at almost any cost. This ... Read more

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