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Area Studies and Social Science Strategies for Understanding Middle East Politics

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ISBN-10: 0253212820

ISBN-13: 9780253212825

Edition: 1999

Authors: Mark Tessler, Jodi Nachtwey, Anne Dressel, Anne Dressel

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How should scholars construct knowledge about politics, economics, and international relations in major world regions?Growing tension between regional specialists and discipline-oriented social scientists has emerged as a major issue in the fields of international, comparative, and area studies. On the one hand, discipline-oriented scholars contend that the work of area specialists lacks rigor, favours description over analysis, and does not encourage the development of general theoretical insights into pressing problems. On the other hand, area specialists charge that analytically oriented social scientists construct abstract models that provide little real insight into the complex…    
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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 5/22/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

DAVID GARNHAM is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee and author of The Politics of European Defense Cooperation: Germany, France, Britain, and America. MARK TESSLER is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Head of the Department of Near Eastern Studies. He is author of A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Mark Tessler is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Centerfor Middle Eastern Studies, and Head of the Department of Near EasternStudies. He is author of A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and co-editor (with David Garnham) of Democracy, War, and Peace in the Middle East.Jodi Nachtwey is a doctoral student in political science and Research Fellow for the Center of International Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.Anne Banda is a doctoral student in urban studies and Assistant Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

Introduction: The Area Studies Controversy
Politics in the Middle East: Opportunities and Limits in the Quest for Theory
State-Society Relations: Algeria as a Case Study
Associational Life: Civil Society in Authoritarian Political Systems
Explaining Women's Support for Political Islam: Contributions from Feminist Theory
Influencing Public Policy: Banking and the Political Economy of Collective Action
Toward a Theory of International Labor Migration: Evidence from Egypt
Religion and International Conflict: An Individual-Level Analysis
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Lessons about Diplomatic Initiatives and Negotiations
Middle Eastern Alliances: From Neorealism to Political Economy
International Relations Theory: Contributions from Research in the Middle East
Contributors
Index