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24 International Relations in the Middle East
Hegemonic Strategies and Regional Order Ewan Stein | University of Edinburgh Developing an original theoretical approach to understanding the roots of regional conflict and cooperation, this is an accessible course book on international relations in the Middle East, covering domestic and international foreign policy dynamics in a range of states, including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey. • An accessible course book on international relations in the Middle East covering domestic and international foreign policy dynamics • Enables specialist and non-specialist readers to gain insight into how and why Middle Eastern regional order has changed over time • Presents a century of foreign policy trajectories in a range of states, including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey
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262pp 2. 2021 9781107181892 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 2. 2021 9781316633021 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 eISBN 9781316855522
Israel’s Regime Untangled
Between Democracy and Apartheid Gal Ariely Forging an innovative path to untangling the conflicting interpretations of the Israeli regime, this book examines at the diverse aspects of the regime to determine the level of ‘democraticness’ exhibited in order to come to its conclusion. • Offers an innovative path to untangling the conflicting interpretations of the Israeli regime • Examines the diverse aspects of the Israeli regime to determine the level of ‘democraticness’ exhibited in order to come to its conclusion • Of interest to scholars and students of the Middle East, comparative politics and Israel studies, especially those analysing regimes and democratization
230pp 3. 2021 9781108845250 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108951371
Kurdish Politics in Iran
Crossborder Interactions and Mobilisation since 1947 Allan Hassaniyan | University of Exeter Reflecting on seven decades of the Iranian Kurdish movement, this history of its development from 1947 offers a vivid and comprehensive analysis of the politicisation of national sentiments within Iran, and the connections the movement made and developed with Kurdish groups in Iraq. • A history of the development of the Kurdish national movement in Iran from 1947 • Examines contemporary Kurdish politics, history and movement in
Iran through the lens of ethnicity, nationalism, and social and political movements • Vividly illustrates the complex relationship between Iraqi and Iranian
Kurdish political parties
256pp 10. 2021 9781316516430 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009029971
Legacies of Repression in Egypt and Tunisia
Authoritarianism, Political Mobilization, and Founding Elections Alanna C. Torres-Van Antwerp When an authoritarian regime collapses, what determines whether an opposition group will form a political party, be successful in mobilizing voters, and survive or dissolve as a group in subsequent years? Based on unique field research, this examines how legacies of authoritarian rule shaped the outcome of Egypt’s 2011 founding elections. • A detailed account of how democratic transitions are patterned by the legacies of authoritarian politics • Based on comparative analysis and field research in Egypt and
Tunisia, with rich insights and comparison drawn from Brazil, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, and Zambia • Of interest to scholars of comparative politics, authoritarianism, political transitions and revolutions, democratization, and Middle East
0pp 1. 2022 9781009100519 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009118040
Marketing Democracy
The Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East Erin A. Snider | Texas A & M University Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Egypt, Morocco, and Washington DC and recently declassified government documents, this book focuses on the construction and practice of democracy aid in the Middle East, showing how democracy aid can reinforce, rather than challenge authoritarian regimes. • Provides a new way of understanding the politics and practice of democracy aid in restrictive regimes • Shows how ideas, interests, and institutions mediate and shape the form and function of democracy aid in the Middle East • Draws on extensive fieldwork in Egypt, Morocco, and Washington DC and recently declassified government documents to illuminate the construction and practice of democracy aid in the Middle East
Cambridge Middle East Studies
250pp 12. 2021 9781108844260 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108943505
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Offshore Citizens
Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf Noora Lori | Boston University Combining the study of minorities with migrants, this book examines the citizenship and migration polices of the United Arab Emirates to show how time is used to construct and police national boundaries. It will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the challenges of citizenship in an era of migration. • Explains the migration and citizenship policies of the Arab Gulf region that hosts the highest concentrations of migrants in the world • Demonstrates the importance of citizenship policies in oil-rich states, showing how legal status and delays are used in the politics of resource distribution • Provides readers with a way of studying stateless minorities, labor migrants, and refugees in conjunction
304pp 5 b/w illus. 2 maps 9 tables 4. 2021 9781108705561 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2019 9781108498173 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108632560
Presidential Elections in Iran
Islamic Idealism since the Revolution Mahmoud Pargoo | Deakin University, Victoria Investigating presidential elections in postrevolutionary Iran, this book argues that political and cultural imagination and expectations in Iran have secularized regardless of the reformist/ conservative political divide. • A comprehensive history of presidential elections in post-revolutionary Iran • Brings to light original sources with extensive archival research in
Persian newspapers and material from multiple parties and political groups • Of interest to students and scholars of political science and Middle
East Studies interested in presidential elections more generally and the domestic politics of Iran
224pp 5. 2021 9781108834506 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 5. 2021 9781108995139 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108993432
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Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism
US and European Policy in Jordan Benjamin Schuetze | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany This first study into the role of US and European ‘democracy promoters’ in Jordan uses a diverse range of original source material to reveal what democracy promotion looks like in practice, vividly illustrating what a greater US and European policy presence in the Global South really means. • Provides a crucial insight into what ‘democracy promoters’ actually do when they promote democracy • Demonstrates how US and European ‘democracy promotion’ in Jordan has come to undermine democratic values • Based on over 160 qualitative interviews conducted in Jordan, Brussels and Washington, DC to address a significant gap in empirical research on democracy promotion
Cambridge Middle East Studies
291pp 10. 2021 9781108737012 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 7. 2019 9781108493383 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108623681
Second-Generation Liberation Wars
Rethinking Colonialism in Iraqi Kurdistan and Southern Sudan Yaniv Voller | University of Kent, Canterbury Exploring the history of the liberation wars in Iraqi Kurdistan and South Sudan, this book analyses both the rebels’ strategies and government counterinsurgency responses for insights into their evolution and the post-colonial separatism, which brings together history and international politics practices and roles that emerged in the subsequent period. • Provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding post-colonial separatism, which brings together history and international politics • Offers new insights into the politics of Iraq and Sudan and the history of liberation wars in Iraqi Kurdistan and South Sudan • With a wealth of primary research, this will be of interest to scholars and researchers of Middle Eastern and African comparative politics, international relations and security studies
Intelligence and National Security in Africa and the Middle East
304pp 2. 2022 9781316513132 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009071840
The Art of Resistance in Islam
The Performance of Politics among Shi’i Women in the Middle East and Beyond Yafa Shanneik | University of Birmingham Examining different forms of resistance among Shi’i women in the Middle East and Europe, this book studies the performance of sectarian and gender power relations as expressed in Shi’i ritual practices. It provides a new transnational approach to researching gender agency in contemporary Islamic movements in both the Middle East and Europe. • Studies the performance of sectarian power relations as expressed in
Shi’i ritual practices • Provides new insights into understanding female agency and empowerment within transnational Muslim women’s resistance movements • Based on first-hand ethnographic insights into Shi’i religious groups in
Europe and the Middle East
Cambridge Middle East Studies
288pp 11. 2021 9781316516492 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009030335
The Fourth Ordeal
A History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, 1968–2018 Victor J. Willi | University of Oxford Based on first-person interviews with Brotherhood rank-and-file members, this is a history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the late 1960s to 2018 providing a unique insight into the group’s internal politics and key players with unprecedented access to Brotherhood members across all organizational levels. • Provides a fresh understanding of the Muslim Brotherhood, focusing on the Brotherhood’s internal politics, and the key individuals who have defined the past 50 years of the group’s history • Based on over one-hundred and forty first-person interviews with
Brotherhood members, and first-hand accounts by the author • Places the story of the Muslim Brotherhood within its larger contextualities of Egyptian national and Middle East regional history and politics
Cambridge Middle East Studies
588pp 2. 2021 9781108830645 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 2. 2021 9781108822459 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108902649
The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement
Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities Isabel Käser | London School of Economics and Political Science
Despite international focus on Kurdish women revolutionaries, little is known about who these women are, where they came from and what keeps them engaged in this costly fight. This book traces the history, ideology, and everyday practices of women in the political, activist and armed branches of the Kurdish Freedom Movement. • Looks at the history and everyday practices of the women’s movement across different parts of Kurdistan • Offers insight into the lived and embodied realities of the struggle in the activist, political and armed spheres of the Kurdish Freedom
Movement • Centres the analysis of shifting gender norms in conflict in Turkey, Iraq and Kurdistan, and in the Middle East more broadly
288pp 8. 2021 9781316519745 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99
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What is Iran?
Domestic Politics and International Relations in Five Musical Pieces Arshin Adib-Moghaddam A general introduction to the domestic politics, international relations and history of Iran. This book also addresses the full spectrum of regional and global affairs enveloping the country, and offers some thoughts on paths to peaceful resolution at the same time. • Provides a full understanding of domestic politics in Iran, regional politics and international relations towards the Islamic republic • Through clear and accessible prose, it offers ways to think about peaceful solutions to crises in the Middle East and beyond • Uses art, poetry and music to understand Iranian history, culture, politics and policy-making
The Global Middle East
225pp 2. 2021 9781108844703 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 2. 2021 9781108948760 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108953351
Women and the Islamic Republic
How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State Shirin Saeidi | University of Arkansas Based on extensive interviews and oral histories as well as archival sources, this book challenges the dominant masculine theorizations of statemaking in post-revolutionary Iran. Offering a comprehensive study on citizenship formation, it reveals the centrality of non-elite women’s participation in the process of citizenship formation. • A comprehensive study on citizenship formation in post-1979 Iran • Examines the centrality of non-elite women’s participation in the process of citizenship formation and the state-making process • Offers a new approach to addressing citizenship politics during moments of transition in the Middle East
Cambridge Middle East Studies
288pp 1. 2022 9781316515761 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009026574
Political economy
A Moral Political Economy
Present, Past, and Future Federica Carugati Economies reflect a moral and political choice, one we can make and remake. This Element makes progress toward building a new moral political economy by offering a theory of change and principles for institutional (re)design.
Elements in Political Economy
75pp 6. 2021 9781108819398 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108872942
Backsliding
Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World Stephan Haggard Backsliding shows how elected rulers can weaken checks on executive power, curtail political rights, and undermine electoral systems. Based on sixteen detailed case studies, Backsliding demonstrates the pernicious effects of polarization, complicit legislatures and the incremental nature of derogations from democratic rule.
Elements in Political Economy
75pp 2. 2021 9781108958400 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108957809
City of Shadows
Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore Supriya RoyChowdhury Urban researchers and development practitioners, would benefit from the book’s narratives of the old poor in inner city slums, new poor in peripheral migrant settlements, export and construction workers. Traditional unskilled occupations and low-end services highlight that the poor’s vulnerabilities are defined by different regimes of informality. • Provides detailed description and analysis of slum household livelihoods over two or more generations of slum residents • Gives an overview of employment conditions in two large sectors of urban employment • Provides critical evaluation of academic as well as policy thinking on contemporary issues that span developing countries, including the NICs
200pp 9. 2021 9781108839365 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108989930
Defining Policy Analysis: A Journey that Never Ends
Beryl A. Radin For much of its life, the field of policy analysis has lived with a wide range of definitions of its goals, work and significance in the society. This Element seeks to sort out these differences by describing the issues, players and developments that have played a role over the life of this field.
Elements in Public Policy
75pp 1. 2021 9781108927802 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108933193
Garments without Guilt?
Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels Kanchana Ruwanpura | University of Edinburgh Uses an analytical framing informed by labour and feminist perspectives to explore how labour struggles in the post-1977 period in Sri Lanka provided important resistance to capitalist processes and continue to shape the industry both within and outside of the shop floor. • Interdisciplinary, located ethnographical work • Supplemented by interviews with labour, management and labour rights activists and unionists • Utilises 2008 as a point of departure to look at the bearing of the global downturn on the apparel industry
180pp 11. 2021 9781108832014 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108937573
