State, power and politics in the making of the modern Middle East /

Main Author: Owen, Roger, 1935-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, England : Routledge, 2004.
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The end of empires : the emergence of the modern Middle Eastern states
  • 2. The growth of state power in the Arab world : the single-party regimes
  • 3. The growth of state power in the Arab world under family rule, and the Libyan alternative
  • 4. Arab nationalism, Arab unity and the practice of intra-Arab state relations
  • 5. State and politics in Israel, Iran and Turkey from the Second World War
  • 6. The remaking of the Middle Eastern political environment between the two Gulf Wars
  • 7. The politics of economic restructuring
  • 8. Parties, elections and the vexed question of democracy in the Arab world
  • 9. The politics of religious revival
  • 10. The military in and out of politics
  • 11. Some important non-state actors
  • 12. America attempts to remake the Middle East
  • Conclusion : the Middle East at the beginning of the twenty-first century.