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| Preface to Third Edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is the Middle East? | |
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| Who invented the Middle East? | |
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| Orientalism - the debate | |
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| State types: making sense of multiplicity | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Colonial Rule | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Merchants and missionaries | |
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| World War I and the death of the Ottoman Empire | |
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| 1918 and after: mandates, protectorates and continued colonization | |
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| Inter-war European decline | |
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| Sunset empire | |
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| Case study: Egypt - Gateway to riches | |
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| Case study: The Palestine d�b�cle | |
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| Case study: Algeria - a colony or province outre mer? | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The development of nationalism | |
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| The birth of Arab nationalism | |
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| The Arab revolt | |
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| Arab nationalism and revolution | |
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| Unification nationalism: the United Arab Republic and beyond | |
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| Case study: Egyptian nationalism | |
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| Case study: Ba'thism - unification or state nationalism? | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Political Economy: Riches of a Region | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief | |
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| Many models make poor work | |
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| Evolution of oil-based economies | |
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| Sheikhdoms and petro-power | |
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| Rentier futures, profit in decline? | |
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| On the wings of a dove - the migrant workforce | |
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| Case study: Mega-economy Kuwaiti style | |
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| Case study: Econo-dependent development Egyptian-style | |
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| Case study: The great globalization debate | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| War and Lack of Peace | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The bigger battle: Arab-Israeli hostility | |
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| Killing dreams: the Israeli-Palestinian dimension | |
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| East against West in the Suez Crisis | |
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| Arab-Arab: brothers at arms | |
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| The lion and the peacock: Arab-Iranian relations | |
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| Lebanon - the politics of a deeply divided society | |
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| Case study: Egypt and Israel - the Cold Peace | |
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| Case study: al-Qaeda | |
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| Case study: Back to Iraq | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Past, Present and Future Politics: Political Islam | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Islam and Politics | |
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| Thoroughly modern Muslims | |
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| Muslim Brotherhood | |
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| Radical and fundamentalist Islam | |
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| Twenty-first-century Muslim | |
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| Case study: The Islamic Republic of Iran | |
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| Case study: Palestinian Islamists - Hamas | |
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| Case study: Hizbollah | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Democratization: Old Politics, New Problems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Clash of civilizations | |
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| Democratization or liberalization? | |
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| Socio-economic indicators | |
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| Democracy and civil society | |
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| Islamism and democracy - an oxymoron? | |
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| From democracy to ethnocracy in Israel | |
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| Case study: Jordan - a fa�ade democracy | |
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| Case study: Algeria - the wrong kind of democracy | |
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| Case Study: Morocco model? | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Women: The Invisible Population | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The role of women in nationalist movements | |
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| Identity and independence: status issues | |
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| Women and Islam | |
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| Subjugation through wealth and work | |
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| Feminism and gender discourses | |
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| Case study: Palestinian women in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip | |
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| Case study: From beyond the veil - Iran since the Revolution | |
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| Case study: Turkey, the state of women | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Ethnicity and Minorities | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Defining ethnicity | |
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| Minority status | |
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| The state and ethnicity | |
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| Modernization | |
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| Ethno-national and religious battles | |
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| Conflict-management and regulation | |
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| Case study: The Kurds' rights denied | |
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| Case study: The Alawites of Syria | |
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| Case study: Israel's Arabs | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Them and Us: The United States, EU and the Middle East | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Objective national interest | |
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| Relations and rivalries | |
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| Burger bars and belly dancers | |
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| American foreign policy from Ground Zero | |
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| Europe, the EU and the Middle East | |
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| Case study: America and Israel | |
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| Case study: America and Saudi Arabia: oil on troubled waters | |
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| Case study: The US and Iran | |
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| Discussion questions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Epilogue: The Middle East and the Twenty-first Century | |
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| The colonial legacy? East-West relations | |
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| The future Arab nation | |
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| The political economy matrix | |
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| Carry on conflict | |
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| Political Islam: the politics of the future | |
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| Democratization | |
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| Sisters doing it for themselves | |
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| Ethnic equations | |
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| Never Alone | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |