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  • State Failure, Power Expansion, and Balance of Power in the Middle East

    The Struggle Over Failed States

    by Aso M. Ali ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the strategies of regional powers in the Middle East regarding their response to cases of state failure in the region, thus connecting the theoretical concepts of statehood, state failure, and revisionist and pro-status quo interventionist behavior. Through a detailed comparative analysis of five case studies of failed states occurring in the region during 1960–2010s –Yemen ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

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  • Inside the Middle East

    Making Sense of the Most Dangerous and Complicated Region on Earth

    by Avi Melamed ...
    Acclaimed Israeli intelligence analyst Avi Melamed has spent more than thirty years interpreting Middle East affairs. His long-awaited Inside the Middle East challenges widely-accepted perceptions and provides a gripping and uniquely enlightening guide to make sense of the events unfolding in the region-to answer how the Arab world got to this point, what is currently happening, what the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • The Islamist Phoenix

    The Islamic State (ISIS) and the Redrawing of the Middle East

    by Loretta Napoleoni ...
    An updated edition of The Islamist Phoenix is now available as ISIS: The Terror Nation (978-1-60980-725-2)From its birth in the late 1990s as the jihadist dream of terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the Islamic State (known by a variety of names, including ISIS, ISIL, and al Qaeda in Iraq) has grown into a massive enterprise, redrawing national borders across the Middle East and subjecting an ... Read more

    $9.79 CAD

  • Iran's Grand Strategy

    A Political History

    by Vali Nasr ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Shia RevivalNow with a new afterword by the author, this gripping account overturns simplistic portrayals of Iran as a theocratic pariah state, revealing how its strategic moves on the world stage are driven by two pervasive threats—external aggression and internal dissolutionIran presents one of the most significant foreign policy challenges for ... Read more

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  • Destroying a Nation

    The Civil War in Syria

    by Nikolaos Van Dam ...
    Following the Arab Spring, Syria descended into civil and sectarian conflict. It has since become a fractured warzone which operates as a breeding ground for new terrorist movements including ISIS as well as the root cause of the greatest refugee crisis in modern history. In this important book, former Special Envoy of the Netherlands to Syria, Nikolaos van Dam, explains the recent history of ... Read more

    $23.39 CAD

  • Turkey and the Arab Spring: Leadership in the Middle East

    by Graham E. Fuller ...
    The Middle East in the 21st century has witnessed a game-changing rollercoaster ride that has transformed relationships across the boards. Turkey underwent the most dramatic changes of its democratic history, propelling it into the role of major regional actor. The "Arab Spring" cast the region into political and social turmoil. US-led wars devastated the lands and peoples of several countries ... Read more

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  • After the Arab Spring

    How Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts

    by John R. Bradley ...
    From the author of the book that uniquely predicted the Egyptian revolution, a new message about the Middle East: everything we're told about the Arab Spring is wrong.When popular revolutions erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, the West assumed that democracy and pluralism would triumph. Greatly praised author and foreign correspondent John R. Bradley draws on his extensive firsthand knowledge of the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • A Short History of the Gaza Strip

    by Anne Irfan ...
    **One of BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year“Excellent.… Essential reading.” —William Dalrymple, GuardianFrom a leading scholar of Palestine-Israel, a brief, essential history of the besieged strip of land, revealing the long-term roots of Israel’s destruction of Gaza.**Since October 2023, Israel has carried out one of the most brutal military onslaughts in modern history on the Gaza Strip, ... Read more

    Was $30.99 CAD Now $18.99 CAD

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  • Iran's Rise and Rivalry with the US in the Middle East

    by Mohsen M. Milani ...
    The 1979 Islamic Revolution triggered a cold war between Iran and the United States – former fast friends. Despite the US’s relentless efforts at containment, Iran has risen as a formidable power in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Gaza. Its newfound status not only frustrates the US but has swiftly become a thorn in the side of Israel and Saudi Arabia. How did Iran rise so rapidly? And as it ... Read more

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  • The Middle East Riddle

    A Study of the Middle East Peace Process and Israeli-Arab Relations in Current Times

    by Luis Fleischman ...
    A foreign policy expert provides a fresh and accessible analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, its complex obstacles, and possible solutions.Luis Fleischman is a sociologist and Middle East policy expert who has served as a senior advisor to government officials and members of congress. In The Middle East Riddle, he examines obstacles to achieving peace that transcend the negotiations ... Read more

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  • Hamas

    From Resistance to Regime

    by Paola Caridi ...
    Translated by Andrea Teti ...
    When the radical Islamist group Hamas was elected to lead Palestine in 2006, the Western world was shocked. How had the majority of Palestinians come to support an extremist organization and how would the group’s new political power affect the larger Israel/Palestine conflict?Italian journalist and historian Paola Caridi offers a clear-eyed account of how the conditions in this war-torn region led ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Cutting the Fuse

    The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It

    by Robert A. Pape, James K Feldman ...
    Cutting the Fuse offers a wealth of new knowledge about the origins of suicide terrorism and strategies to stop it. Robert A. Pape and James K. Feldman have examined every suicide terrorist attack worldwide from 1980 to 2009, and the insights they have gleaned from that data fundamentally challenge how we understand the root causes of terrorist campaigns today—and reveal why the War on Terror has ... Read more

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