State, power and politics in the making of the modern Middle East
By: Roger Owen.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Middle East -- Politics and government.; Africa, North -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: States and state building; title: The end of empires : the emergence of the modern Middle Eastern state; title: The growth of state power in the Arab world : the single-party regimes; title: The growth of state power in the Arab world under family rule, and the Libyan; title: Alternative; title: Arab nationalism, Arab unity and the practice of intra-Arab state relations; title: State and politics in Israel, Iran and Turkey from the Second World War; title: The remaking of the Middle Eastern political environment between the two; title: Gulf wars; title: Themes in contemporary Middle Eastern politics; title: The politics of economic restructuring; title: Parties, elections and the vexed question of democracy in the Arab world; title: The politics of religious revival; title: The military in and out of politics; title: Some important non-state actors; title: The impact of the 11 September attacks; title: America attempts to re-make the Middle East.