State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East

Name: State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East
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ISBN: 9780415297141

ISBN-10: 0415297141

ISBN-13: 9780415297141

Edition: 3rd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Roger Owen

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This third edition continues to explore the emergence of individual Middle Eastern states since the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War and the key themes that have characterised the region since then.

Book details

List price: $59.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 6/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.13" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Roger Owen is A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.



List of illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


List of abbreviations



States and state-building



The end of empires: the emergence of the modern Middle Eastern states



The growth of state power in the Arab world: the single-party regimes



The growth of state power in the Arab world under family rule, and the Libyan alternative



Arab nationalism, Arab unity and the practice of intra-Arab state relations



State and politics in Israel, Iran and Turkey from the Second World War



The remaking of the Middle Eastern political environment between the two Gulf Wars



Themes in contemporary Middle Eastern politics



The politics of economic restructuring



Parties, elections and the vexed question of democracy in the Arab world



The politics of religious revival



The military in and out of politics



Some important non-state actors



The impact of the 11 September attacks



America attempts to remake the Middle East


Conclusion: the Middle East at the beginning of the twenty-first century


Notes


Select bibliography


Index