Handbook of Middle East Politics

Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia

Contents:

1 Fault lines in Middle East politics 1
Shahram Akbarzadeh
2 Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa 6
Roel Meijer
3 Political Islam: a 40-year retrospective 25
Nader Hashemi
4 The power and limits of ideology in the Middle East 43
Mohammed M. Hafez
5 Political parties in the Middle East: the unsolved problem of collective action 59
Marina Ottaway
6 Far-right populists in power and transnational repression of dissidents 73
Ihsan Yilmaz
7 Varieties of feminisms in the Middle East and North Africa 89
Valentine M. Moghadam
8 The political system in Iran: theocratic electoral authoritarianism 110
Shahram Akbarzadeh and Arif Saba
9 Where is Iranian politics? Between state and nation, inside and outside
the polity 126
Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany
10 Saudi Arabia’s centralized political structure: prospects and challenges 144
Eman Alhussein
11 Bourdieu’s social theory and the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran 158
Simon Mabon
12 External powers in the Middle East: views from within the region 174
Guy Burton
13 US foreign policy toward the Middle East 190
Mahmood Monshipouri and Manochehr Dorraj
14 China’s uneasy balancing in the Persian Gulf 209
Jonathan Fulton
15 A new regional fault line: the Middle East divided in search of
a post-revolutionary order 225
Andreas Krieg
16 The political economies of the Arab Gulf states: policies for change,
frameworks for stasis 239
Matthew Gray
17 Lebanon as the politics of permanent crisis 254
Filippo Dionigi
18 “People, army, resistance”: the end of Hizbullah’s Legacy 272
Mariam Farida
19 Palestine and international intervention 293
Dana El Kurd
20 Captured Politics under Colonial Dominance: The case of Palestine 308
Basem Ezbidi
21 International talks in the Syrian conflict: a continuation of war by other means? 333
Bente Scheller
22 Globalized finance capital, hegemony and the Middle East: through the
lens of radical political economy 350
Raymond Hinnebusch
23 Environmental security in the Middle East and North Africa:
interpretations and patterns of policy and activism 367
Giulia Cimini

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