Routledge, 2019. — 150 p. Since December 2010, a series of uprisings, revolutions, coups and civil wars have shaken up the Middle East and North Africa region. In this chaotic political environment, several countries have been trying to influence this regional transformation. The implications of this transformation are of great importance for the region, its people and global...
Routledge, 2019. — 456 p. This handbook examines the regional and international dynamics of the Middle East. It challenges the state society dichotomy to make sense of decision-making and behavior by ruling regimes. The 33 chapter authors include the world’s leading scholars of the Middle East and International Relations (IR) in order to make sense of the region. This synthesis...
OBİV, İstanbul, 2005, 153 p.
The Foundation of Middle East and Balkan Studies with the Yıldız Technical University Department of Political Science and International Relations organized a conference under the title of New Iraq on 22 March 2005. The participants who are all experts in their fields have come together at this very important conference, so as to discuss the future...
Routledge, 2019. — 142 p. This book looks at the way primarily external actors influenced and were influenced by the revolutionary chaos that erupted in the Arab Middle East in 2011. The Arab revolutions radically altered the Middle East dynamic and particularly the strategic standing of key actors, both locally and globally. The ‘winners’ are leaders with strategic...
Routledge, 1992. — 252 p. Reconstruction and Regional Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf provides a detailed analysis of the social, political, and economic patterns of interaction between Gulf states. The authors provide a consideration of the role of the superpowers in the region's political discourse, and of religion as an agent for change. Informative and accessible, this study...
Routledge, 2011. — 432 p. A longtime bestseller, Politics and Change in the Middle East employs a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensively and evenhandedly study the region’s past, present, and future. Through politics, economics, culture, and history, this text offers a rugged analytical framework that familiarizes students with the Middle East and helps them to...
Belfer Centre for Science and International Affairs, 2011. — 54 p. Pakistan’s Strategic Challenges: Traditional Threats and New Adversaries External Threats, Inconsistent Partners Internal Threats A Short History of Pakistan’s Military Indian Partition, Kashmir, and the Use of Proxies US Military Aid, the First Military Regime, and the 1965 War The 1971 War and a Return to...
Palgrave MacMillan, 2020. — 152 p. — ISBN 978-3-030-27885-4. This book examines some of the driving forces of change in the Middle East and aims to provide a regional outlook. The political and social events of the past years have significantly affected the regional structure across the Middle East, evident in socio-economic systems, security framework and the balance of power...
Routledge, 2017. — 248 p. Bringing peace to the Middle East, and in particular resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict, is one of the perennial and seemingly impossible tasks of world diplomacy. Many different peace plans have been put forward by different countries; but still there has been no breakthrough. This book, first published in 1986, examines the different peace plans for...
Routledge, 2018. — 192 p. This collection of research papers explores the impact of the Arab uprisings on the politics and political economy of foreign aid provision in the MENA region. Contributions focus on the foreign assistance policies and strategies of key donors (United States, Europe, Gulf countries and Turkey), and on the relationship between donors and recipients of...
Routledge, 2009. — 264 p. Political succession is a key issue in the contemporary Middle East. In this new study the author examines the process and shows how respect for those in authority and tribal codes of loyalty have been far more influential in maintaining regimes than security institutions and political repression. The Arab world is faced by political turmoil and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 301 p. International Society and the Middle East brings together a distinguished cast of theorists and Middle East experts to provide a comprehensive overview of the region's history and how its own traditions have mixed, often uncomfortably, with the political structures imposed by the expansion of Western international society. This is the sort of...
Routledge, 2023. — 228 p. The whole region of the Middle East is beset with a structural crisis of which particular crises confronting the component countries happen to be merely subsets. The real questions revolve round the issue of how long can the present dispensations of power and social structures in the region forged in the twentieth century (first half or second) can...
HarperCollins, 2022. — 304 p. The Pashtuns are perhaps the largest ethnic group in the world without a country of their own. They inhabit a continuous stretch of land from the Hindu Kush to the Indus, across Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan used the Pashtun-dominated areas in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as a launching pad against the Soviet occupation of...
Routledge, 2017. — 288 p. This book, first published in 1991, examines in detail superpower-client relations in the Middle East. The Middle East, with its protracted and seemingly insoluble conflict and complex patterns of loyalty and hostility, is the ideal setting for the study of such relationships. Using the USSR and Syria, and the USA and Israel as case studies, this book...
Hurst, 2021. — 216 p. A proud, angry and hopeful rallying cry for democracy and human rights in the Middle East and North Africa. Baghdadi and Gatnash provide an excellent primer on the history of the region, firmly rooting its current woes in the colonial experience. Why is the Middle East a crisis factory, and how can it be fixed? What does the future look like for its 500...
Penn State University Press, 2024. — 275 p. — ISBN 9780271095523 A vibrant urban settlement from medieval times and the royal seat of the Safavid dynasty, the city of Isfahan emerged as a great metropolis during the seventeenth century. Using key sources, this book reconstructs the spaces and senses of this dynamic city. Focusing on nuances of urban experience, Farshid Emami...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 304 p. Islam, Democracy, and Turkey’s Secular State. Iran: Classical Themes and Contemporary Challenges. Pakistan: A Work in Progress. Indonesia: From Military Rule to Democracy. Senegal: Democracy and the Postcolonial State. Tunisia: From Revolution to Republic. Egypt: From Democratization to the Restoration of Authoritarianism. Notes.
Islamabad Policy Institute Research, 2016. — 152 p. Afghanistan is a country at the crossroads of change. Change, that can either take it out of its past and present existential crisis towards wholeness; or push it towards abysmal chaos. What the country and its people need more than anything else in the days and years ahead is decisive leadership, whether from the world’s...
The third edition. Oxford University Press, 2013. — 424 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–960827–0 This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of its subject area, bringing together leading experts to provide students with authoritative and up-to-date content. It combines a history of the region with analysis of key themes, actors, and conflicts, and uses a range of learning features...
Washington: Center for International Policy, 2009. — 78 p. The Center for International Policy, with support from the Ploughshares Fund, sponsored an expert study on "Ethnic Minorities and the Future of Pakistan" to assess the grievances of the minorities, the posture of the Pakistan central government toward them, past and present, and the impact of U.S. policies on how Islamabad...
Routledge, 2019. — 282 p. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has established itself as the twelfth-largest economy in the world, the largest West Asian economic power, worlds largest oil producer, and a strong and capable force in international politics, particularly in the Sunni Islamic world. However, at present it is at crossroads.
Routledge, 2004. — 280 p. Professor Kedourie is known for his unforgettable essays, for the pattern of interpretation and view of the world which hold his readers spellbound, even when they strongly disagree with his opinions, and for Middle Eastern Studies, which recently reached its majority and which he and Frank Cass together have turned into the foremost scholarly journal...
Routledge, 2015. — 144 p. The quickening pace of Iran’s nuclear activities has produced an international sense of urgency. Sanctions have intensified, while fears of an Israeli strike abound. Talks have briefly eased the tension, before failing due to fundamental differences between Iran and the West. There seem to be dim prospects for peaceful resolution; the worry is that...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. — 190 p. The GCC states and Turkey have recently experienced economic growth and played influential regional roles. In tandem, their relationships grew significantly, and Turkey was considered, for a while, as a “strategic partner”. Common challenges have made them consider an alliance to balance other powers and threats. However, many...
University of California Press, 2013. — 536 p. Since it was first published in 2006, this concise overview of the making of the contemporary Middle East has become essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region. Writing for a wide audience, Mehran Kamrava takes us from fall of the Ottoman Empire to today,...
Riga: NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, 2020. — ISBN 978-9934-564-68-0. Executive summary. Introduction and geopolitical contex. Military-strategic background. Iranian & Iran-backed political warfare and information activities. Analysis of information operations and conclusions. Linguistic assessment of Houthi information activities vis-à-vis kinetic actions...
Routledge, 2011. — 272 p. This volume provides a broadly comparative and historical re-examination of the fundamental strategic dilemmas that confront the Western world in the Persian Gulf region. This systematic study of how the West has defined and dealt with its security interests in this region reveals three central strategic dilemmas: strategy versus capability, globalism...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 288 p. — (Comparative Politics and International Studies). Since 2013, the Middle East has experienced a double trend of chaos and civil war, on the one hand, and the return of authoritarianism, on the other. That convergence has eclipsed the political transitions that occurred in the countries whose regimes were toppled in 2011, as if they were...
Routledge, 2015. — 324 p. This volume, first published in 1973, brings together a wide range of Professor Landau’s work on recent Middle Eastern history and politics, reflecting the breadth of the author’s concern and research. The first section deals with aspects of political organisation in the Middle East, largely Egypt, towards the end of the nineteenth century. A...
Springer International Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 182 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-76815-1, 978-3-319-76816-8. During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership. Writings on subjects dealing with politics, globalization, and social matters gained are well-received. While mapping the genre, this monograph shows literary...
Washington, D.C.: Middle East Institute, 2021. — 35 p. As a Lebanese actor ideologically tied to Iran, Hezbollah has multiple allegiances and objectives that do not always align symmetrically. Hezbollah’s regional activities are a reflection of the group’s increasingly close alignment with Iran, rather than the interests of the Lebanese state or citizenry. Today, Hezbollah’s...
NY: Public Affairs, 2011. — 592 p.
In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term...
Manchester University Press, 2023. — 320 p. The year 1973 is usually considered the great equaliser among major oil producers. But the 'Visions' strategies of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a so-called middle power and small state in the Middle East regional system, point to broadening economic relations as a great enhancer of economic power. This book explores the...
Routledge, 2013. — 284 p. This study presents the story of successes and failures of the treatment of security matters pertaining to territorial and boundary political affairs in the maritime areas of the Persian Gulf, and at the same time provides an example of the impact of territoriality on world-wide maritime security.
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 248 p. With Hezbollah's entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and recent forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi‘i political and military organization continues to play an enormous role in the Middle East. Policymakers in the United States and Israel usually denounce it as a dangerous terrorist group and refuse to...
6th Ed. — Nicholas Brealey, 2018. — 326 p. — ISBN10: 1473669979, ISBN13: 978-1473669970. For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work as the essential guide to comprehending an immensely varied culture. Covering all aspects of Arab life, from religion and society to social norms and...
5th ed. — Nicholas Brealey, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN 978-0-98395-580-1. For nearly three decades, diplomats, students, business people and governments have relied on Dr. Margaret Nydell's seminal work as the essential guide to comprehending an immensely varied culture. Covering all aspects of Arab life, from religion and society to social norms and communication styles, this...
Routledge, 1981. — 320 p. This book represents three decades of Perlmutter's experiences and observations. The author studies the relationship between the military and politics in Middle East, focusing mainly on Egypt as a case study. He concludes by analysing the effect this internal relationship has on military performance.
Threshold Editions, 2010. — 400 p. With penetrating insight and candor, Walid Phares, Fox News terrorism and Middle East expert and a specialist in global strategies, argues that a fierce race for control of the Middle East is on, and the world’s future may depend on the outcome. Yet not a failure of imagination, but rather, of education has left Americans without essential...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 336 p. Something extraordinary is happening in Saudi Arabia. A traditional, tribal society once known for its lack of tolerance is rapidly implementing significant economic and social reforms. An army of foreign consultants is rewriting the social contract, King Salman has cracked down hard on corruption, and his dynamic though inexperienced son, the Crown...
Kemalism, the dominant ideology in Turkey, is going through crisis during the last decades. Its basic principles are being challenged by the Kurdish issue, the rise of political Islam and the pressure for modernization. Under the changing international and domestic reality kemalism is unable to produce solutions to problems and to provide Turkish citizens with a future...
Λευκωσία: Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Ανθρωπιστικών Επιστημών, 2011. — 377 σ.
Το πρώτο μέρος της εργασίας ασχολείται με το ζήτημα της τουρκικής αστικής τάξης από την κατάρρευση της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας μέχρι και το τέλος της δεκαετίας του 1980. Καταπιάνεται με την παρουσίαση της πολιτικής που ακολούθησε το κεμαλικό κράτος και την επιλογή του να ενδυναμώσει τα τμήματα εκείνα...
Казань: Изд-во Казан. ун-та, 2015. — 352 с. — ISBN: 978-5-00019-359-4. В книге дана хроника политических, военных, экономических и других событий на Ближнем Востоке на примере Ливии, Египта и Сирии. Произведен подробный анализ причин и возможных последствий военных конфликтов.
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2008. — 288 с. Принято считать, что развитие той или иной научной отрасли, в том числе и востоковедной, адекватно количеству и качеству исследуемого материала. В России развитие тюркологических исследований, включая османистику, всегда было пропорционально значимости тюркских народов в ее истории. Вместе с тем, российская тюркология за прошедший...
М.: Либроком, 2012. — 105 с. Настоящая книга предлагает читателю познакомиться с самым, пожалуй, неожиданным событием 2011 года во всем мире - революцией в Арабской Республике Египет (АРЕ), приведшей к отставке президента Хосни Мубарака. Детально излагаются предпосылки антиправительственных выступлений, подробно описывается ход революционных событий, в том числе дана оценка...
Монография. — Москва: МГИМО-Университет, 2019. — 237 с. Настоящая монография подготовлена к 70-летию провозглашения независимости Государства Израиль. В ней рассмотрены актуальные проблемы истории, политики, экономики этой страны, выявлены и обоснованы основные закономерности развития израильского общества, подведены итоги и намечены возможные перспективы его развития....
Москва: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2007. — 208 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89282-322-7. В данной работе предпринята попытка определить основные направления региональной политики Ирана, на которую влияют национальные интересы каждой из соседних стран, а сами эти национальные интересы в эпоху глобализации стали определяться не только, и даже иногда не столько внутренними причинами,...
Курс лекций. — Казань: К(П)ФУ, 2012. — 117 с. Курс лекций предназначен для обучения по специальности « регионоведение » и включает план, информационный блок, список основной и дополнительной литературы, словарь терминов, список имен, вопросы для самопроверки. Введение. Теоретические основы власти и политической системы . Возникновение институтов политического управления....
М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2008. — 284 с. В монографии «Регион Залива: конфликты, компромиссы, сотрудничество» исследуются взаимоотношения государств региона, начиная с Иракского кризиса и вплоть до настоящего времени. Отдельный раздел посвящен проблемам безопасности и включает в себя детальный анализ взаимоотношений арабских стран и Ирана, а также подходов обеих сторон к...
Монография. — Алматы: Қазақ университеті, 2020. — 237 с. Мусинов Аскар Ахметович – профессиональный дипломат, работающий в сфере международных отношений со дня становления Республики Казахстан, внесший весомую лепту в становление и развитие внешней политики Казахстана. А. Мусинов работал послом в таких странах, как Египет, Саудовская Аравия, Объединенные Арабские Эмираты, а...
Сборник научных статей. — М.: МГИМО, 2012. — 72 с. — (Свежий взгляд. Том 4. Работы начинающих исследователей). Данный сборник статей, подготовленный в Центре ближневосточных исследований ИМИ МГИМО (У), посвящен рассмотрению отдельных важных аспектов политики и экономики современного Ближнего Востока. Целью первой статьи сборника «Газовое будущее Израиля. Взгляд из России»...
Москва: Центрполиграф, 2016. — 384 с.: ил. Книга Е.М. Примакова, видного ученого и политического деятеля, посвящена характеристике тех основных процессов, которые развивались в постколониальном арабском мире, и описанию отдельных исторических эпизодов, которые автору довелось не только наблюдать, но и в но и в некоторых принимать участие.
Учебное пособие. — Казань: Изд-во КФУ, 2015. — 248 с. В учебном пособии «Политические системы арабских стран» на основе большого фактологического материала рассматривается система органов государственной власти арабских стран, деятельность политических партий, специфика электорального процесса и конституционного развития, юридическая основа и особенности функционирования...
Учебное пособие ; [под. ред. Л.М. Ефимовой] ; Моск. гос. ин-т междунар. отношений (ун-т) М-ва иностр. дел Рос. Федерации, каф. востоковедения. — Москва : МГИМО-Университет, 2017. — 312, [1] с. — ISBN: 978-5-9228-1627-4. Учебное пособие написано на основе курса лекций для бакалавров факультета международных отношений МГИМО и учитывает политические изменения, произошедшие на...
М. : МГИМО-Университет, 2008. — 320 с. — ISBN: 5922803964. В учебном пособии на основе большого фактологического материала детально рассматривается система органов государственной власти в арабских странах, порядок формирования, компетенции и особенности функционирования парламентов, консультативных советов и правительств в странах с республиканской и монархической формой...
М. : МГИМО-Университет, 2008. — 320 с. — ISBN: 5922803964. В учебном пособии на основе большого фактологического материала детально рассматривается система органов государственной власти в арабских странах, порядок формирования, компетенции и особенности функционирования парламентов, консультативных советов и правительств в странах с республиканской и монархической формой...
Аналитические доклады ИМИ Выпуск 2(21), сентябрь 2008. – Москва: МГИМО – Университет, 2008. – 74 с. Процесс формирования палестинской государственности включает создание жизнеспособной национальной экономики, способной обеспечить приемлемый уровень доходов и потребления населения и включенной в систему международных экономических отношений. С того момента, когда возникла...
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2021. — 264 с. — ISBN 978-5-907384-82-8 Коллективная монография посвящена широкому кругу проблем, в настоящее время наиболее волнующих Арабский Восток и отражающих многообразие и пестроту ситуаций, которые возникают на значимых направлениях функционирования его экономического и социального организма. Исследован блок вопросов, касающихся таких...
Монография. — М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2020. — 442 с. Настоящая книга, посвященная эпохе, охватывающей время непосредственно перед началом египетско-израильских войн, сами войны и периоды конфронтации между ними, дает самое полное и объективное описание того, что происходило на этом небольшом, но стратегически важном участке мировой арены, с 1948 до 1973 год, в...
Монография. — М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2022. — 473 с. Книга, которую читатель держит сейчас в руках, посвящена отношениям двух приграничных государств — Израиля и Египта — на протяжении почти полувека, со дней окончания последней войны между ними в конце октября 1973 года по настоящее время. Изданная полтора года назад монография «Израиль и Египет: пять войн за четверть...
المركز العربي لأبحاث ودراسة السياسات, 2016. — 144 صفحة تختبر هذه الدراسة فرضية أن المثقف العربي يعاني بصفة عامة ”متلازمة تيانانمن“، أي المتلازمة التي تحدد علاقة المثقف بالديمقراطية. وكلمة تيانانمن مشتقة من ميدان في العاصمة الصينية في بيجين، شهد في عام 1989 أكبر حركة ثورية للإصلاح الديمقراطي منذ قيام النظام الشيوعي في الصين (1949). وترتبط بهذه المتلازمة ”حزمة” من التصورات تتعلق...
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