Politics & Society in the Contemporary Middle East

Michele Penner Angrist is associate professor of political science at Union College, USA. She is author of Party Building in the Modern Middle East and coeditor (with Marsha Pripstein Posusney) of Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Regimes and Resistance.

The Making of Middle East Politics—M.P. Angrist. CONTEMPORARY DYNAMICS. Governments and Opposition—M. El-Ghobashy. The Impact of International Politics—F.G. Gause III. Political Economy—P.W. Moore. Civil Society—S. Carapico. Religion and Politics—J. Schwedler. Identity and Politics—D.S. Patel. Gender and Politics—D. Singerman. CASES. Algeria—Y.H. Zoubir. Egypt—N.J. Brown, E.E. Shahin, and J. Stacher. Iran—A. Keshavarzian. Iraq—F.H. Lawson. Israel—A. Dowty. Jordan—C.R. Ryan. Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates—M. Herb. Palestine—N.J. Brown. Saudi Arabia—G. Okruhlik. Syria—F.H. Lawson. Turkey—M.J. Patton. CONCLUSION. Trends and Prospects—M.P. Angrist.