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Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics


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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.

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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

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By Miaad A. Hassan
August 30, 2024

This book explores the political trajectories of various countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, tracing the shifts in party systems and regime transitions along a model-like trajectory that spans from revolutionism to authoritarianism and electoral Islamism. Adopting a ...

The Early Israeli Settler Movement The Birth Pangs of Gush Emunim

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

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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

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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

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By Ekavi Athanassopoulou
July 26, 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 ...

British Diplomacy in Oman and Bahrain 50 Years of Change

British Diplomacy in Oman and Bahrain: 50 Years of Change

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By Joe Worthington
May 27, 2024

This book marks the first comprehensive examination of contemporary British influence in Oman and Bahrain, analysing Britain’s legacy since the official withdrawal from the Gulf in 1971. Using theories of power as a framework, the book examines the development of British economic, strategic, and ...

Egyptian Foreign Relations Under al-Sisi External Alignments Since 2013

Egyptian Foreign Relations Under al-Sisi: External Alignments Since 2013

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By Christian Achrainer
May 27, 2024

Considering both changes and continuities, this book examines how, why, and along which lines Egypt’s external alignments under the al-Sisi regime emerged and developed. Egypt’s foreign relations have changed substantially since the current regime took power in 2013. To assess this, the author ...

The New Silk Road Grand Strategy and the Maghreb China and North Africa

The New Silk Road Grand Strategy and the Maghreb: China and North Africa

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By Mordechai Chaziza
May 27, 2024

Examining Chinese-North African relations through the lens of President Xi Jinping’s Silk Road grand strategy, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of emerging strategic and economic partnerships in the Maghreb region. China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) is one of the most ambitious ...

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 ...

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