View All Book Series

BOOK SERIES


Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics


About the Series

This series is concerned with recent political developments in the region. It will have a range of different approaches and include both single authored monographs and edited volumes covering issues such as international relations, foreign intervention, security, political Islam, democracy, ideology and public policy.

129 Series Titles

Per Page
Sort

Display
Authoritarian Regimes and their Islamist Rivals A Comparative Study of Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa

Authoritarian Regimes and their Islamist Rivals: A Comparative Study of Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Miaad A. Hassan
August 30, 2024

Examining the political trajectories of various MENA countries, this book traces changes in party systems and regime transitions through a model-like path from revolutionism to authoritarianism and Islamism. The book situates patterns of party formation and developments in authoritarian and ...

The Early Israeli Settler Movement The Birth Pangs of Gush Emunim

The Early Israeli Settler Movement: The Birth Pangs of Gush Emunim

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Jeffrey Kaplan
August 23, 2024

This book examines the religious, intellectual and historical roots of the Israeli settlement movement through the lens of various strands of Zionism. The book opens with a discussion of religious Zionism, especially through the lens of the teachings of Rabbi Avraham Isaac Kook and his son Zvi ...

Turkey's Nationalist Action Party Ideas and Practices

Turkey's Nationalist Action Party: Ideas and Practices

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Arzu Opçin Kıdal
July 31, 2024

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the nationalist ideas and practices of Turkey’s Nationalist Action Party (MHP) from its founder, Alparslan Türkeş, to its current leader, Devlet Bahçeli. Applying both diachronic and synchronic approaches to the multidimensionality of nationalism, the ...

Turkey's Relations With Israel The First Sixty Two Years,1948–2010

Turkey's Relations With Israel: The First Sixty Two Years,1948–2010

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Ekavi Athanassopoulou
June 28, 2024

This book offers the first comprehensive history and analysis of Turkey’s relations with Israel since 1948, when the state of Israel was established, up until 2010 and places them within the wider framework of Turkey’s foreign policy. It highlights the remarkable lack of consistency in Turkey’s ...

From the 1919 Revolution to the 2011 Arab Spring A History of Three Egyptian Thawras Reconsidered

From the 1919 Revolution to the 2011 Arab Spring: A History of Three Egyptian Thawras Reconsidered

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Uzi Rabi, Mira Tzoreff
May 08, 2024

Focused on three Egyptian revolutions—in 1919, 1952, and 2011—this edited book argues that each of these revolutions is a milestone which represents a meaningful turning point in modern Egyptian history. Revolutions are typically characterized by a fundamental change in political and social ...

Iran and the West A Non-Western Approach to Foreign Policy

Iran and the West: A Non-Western Approach to Foreign Policy

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Andrew Thomas
April 02, 2024

This book explores non-Western approaches to foreign policy in the context of Iran in order to encourage wider consideration of non-Western scholarship in international relations. Throughout its existence IR has drawn primarily on Western thought and experience, leaving other perspectives on the ...

Hezbollah A Regional Armed Non-State Actor

Hezbollah: A Regional Armed Non-State Actor

1st Edition

By Hadi Wahab
January 29, 2024

This book examines Hezbollah’s transition from a domestic into a regional armed non-state actor (ANSA). Taking its point of departure in Hezbollah’s historiography on the military and political levels in Lebanon, it focuses on the participation of Hezbollah’s troops in Syria’s sect-coded civil war....

Israel’s Knesset Members A Comparative Study of an Undefined Job

Israel’s Knesset Members: A Comparative Study of an Undefined Job

1st Edition

By Susan Hattis Rolef
January 29, 2024

Taking Members of the Israeli Knesset (MKs) as a case study, this book offers a comparative analysis of the various roles performed by Members of Parliament (MPs) within the framework of their job in democracies around the world. Based on the author’s experience of working in and for the ...

Qatar The Practice of Rented Power

Qatar: The Practice of Rented Power

1st Edition

By Diana Galeeva
January 29, 2024

This book explains the parameters of Qatar’s political growth by developing an alternative theory of power – ‘rented’ power. The author demonstrates how Qatar’s emergence as a regional power can be solely explained by its capacity as a gas-rich rentier state. By using Qatar as an empirical case ...

The End of the Middle East Peace Process The Failure of US Diplomacy

The End of the Middle East Peace Process: The Failure of US Diplomacy

1st Edition

By Samer Bakkour
January 29, 2024

Presenting the Middle East peace process as an extension of US foreign policy, this book argues that ongoing interventions justified in the name of ‘peace’ sustain and reproduce hegemonic power. With an interdisciplinary approach, this book questions the conceptualisation and general understanding...

Overlapping Regional Orders in the Middle East and North Africa Norms and Social Practices of Foreign Behaviour

Overlapping Regional Orders in the Middle East and North Africa: Norms and Social Practices of Foreign Behaviour

1st Edition

By Jordi Quero
November 24, 2023

Focused on a set of overlapping international orders of regional scope present in the Middle East and North Africa, this book argues that rules and primary institutions have sanctioned the foreign behavior of the sub-system’s international actors since 1945. The author avoids recent IR trends ...

The Kurds in Erdogan's

The Kurds in Erdogan's "New" Turkey: Domestic and International Implications

1st Edition

Edited By Nikos Christofis
September 25, 2023

This book focuses on the AKP government since 2002 during which time the state’s approach to the Kurdish Question has undergone several changes. Examining what preceded and followed the failed putsch of 2016, it explains and critiques that situates the Kurdish Question in its broader context. It ...

1-12 of 129
AJAX loader