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International Terrorism In 1988 by Anat Kurz
RRP: $263.25$228.70This report surveys international terrorism in 1988. It is the fifth annual survey of its kind published by the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies' Project on Low intensity Varfare. As in previous years' reports, the current survey contains statistical... -
After the Eagles Landed: The Yemenites of Israel by Herbert S. Lewis
RRP: $263.25$229.48This book portrays aspects of the life of a community of over 1,200 Jews who were either born in Yemen, or who were, in 1975-77, the young sons and daughters of immigrants from Yemen. It contains implications for the important and currently debated topic... -
Afghan Resistance: The Politics Of Surivival by Grant M. Farr
RRP: $77.98$68.37Drawing on Afghan cultural and historical background, this book provides fresh insights into the nature of the Afghan conflict, the country's threatened national infrastructure, the continuing decimation of its citizens, and the prospects for their... -
Haunted Presents: Europeans, Muslim Immigrants and the Onus of European-Jewish Histories by Amikam Nachmani
RRP: $175.50$126.40Haunted presents: Europeans, Muslim immigrants, and the onus of European Jewish histories is an in-depth analysis of the interrelations between Muslim minority immigrants and local European communities with an accent on Jewish communities and Judaism... -
Citizenship Education in Turkey: From Militant-Secular to Islamic Nationalism by Abdulkerim Sen
RRP: $156.00$136.89This book investigates the evolution of citizenship education curriculum in parallel with the ideological transition of the country in a crucial period in which political power switched from secular-militant to Islamic nationalism. It sheds light on the... -
The Politics Of Scarcity: Water In The Middle East by Selig A Taubenblatt
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book focuses on the impact that emerging water problems in the Middle East will have on U.S. strategic interests in that region. It provides an invaluable study for students of the Middle East as well as for seasoned analysts.Book InformationISBN... -
Youth in Egypt: Identity, Participation, and Opportunity by Nadine Sika
RRP: $156.00$125.68An eye-opening look at youth in contemporary Egypt, from the role they play in advancing political change to their everyday struggles In Youth in Egypt, Nadine Sika explores the political world of young people in Egypt, focusing on their experiences... -
U.S. - Israeli Strategic Cooperation In The Post-cold War Era: An American Perspective by Karen Puschel
RRP: $74.08$65.09This study moves from a history of the American-Israeli strategic relationship since 1967 to an assessment of the permanency of US-Israeli strategic ties, their purpose in the eyes of both partners, and their susceptibility to future pressures. It... -
Buying Security: Iran Under The Monarchy by Ann Tibbitts Schulz
RRP: $74.08$60.80This book looks at trends in military expenditures in Iran during, approximately, the three decades preceding the Islamic revolution of 1979 and their impact on economic growth and development. It focuses on military security policy, which establishes... -
Islam and the Cultural Accommodation of Social Change by Bassam Tibi
RRP: $74.08$65.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367153526Author Bassam TibiFormat PaperbackImprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 152g -
The Transformation of Kurdish and Islamist Parties in Turkey: Consequences for Regime Change by Pelin Ayan Musil
RRP: $233.98$213.62This book analyzes the transformation of ethnic and religious political parties in Turkey with special focus on their role in the country's democratization and regime changes. Turkey went through a process of autocratization under the rule of the AKP... -
Israel's Changing Society: Population, Ethnicity, And Development by Calvin Goldscheider
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book provides the most up-to-date assessment of Israel's society today, portraying the country's ethnic diversity, its economy, and demographic changes. Revealing linkages between demographic transformation and socioeconomic change, Goldscheider... -
The State And The Industrialization Crisis In Turkey by Henri J Barkey
RRP: $56.53$48.93This book re-evaluates the politics of the maligned industrialization strategy and examines Turkey's attempts to implement it in the 1960s and 1970s. It argues that Import Substituting Industrialization itself is not responsible for the failure of... -
The Middle East Military Balance 1986 by Aharon Levran
RRP: $77.98$69.15This annual reference provides a statistical study of military trends in the Middle East and a collection of essays analyzing the details and strategic significance of events in the region. This fourth annual volume of the Middle East Military Balance... -
The Problems Of Arab Economic Development And Integration by Adda Guecioueur
RRP: $263.25$217.82In this book, scholars, journalists, and officials of Arab, pan-Arab, and non-Arab institutions afford insights into the problems of Arab economic development and integration. The contributors, who met on the occasion of the 11th Arab Summit (also known... -
The Middle East Since Camp David by Robert O Freedman
RRP: $263.25$217.04Since the Camp David agreements of September 1978, the Middle East has experienced a series of major military and political developments that have affected not just the nations of the region and the two superpowers, but the rest of the world as well. The... -
The Communist Movement In Palestine And Israel, 19191984 by Sondra M Rubenstein
RRP: $263.25$218.99This book traces the origin and development of the communist movement in Palestine and Israel, examining in detail the problems affecting it the years preceding Israeli statehood In 1948. Focusing on these problems within the context of events in the... -
Technology Trade With The Middle East by James J. Emery
RRP: $263.25$217.82First published in 1986, the research for this book was originally undertaken by the authors at The Futures Group for the Office of Technology Assessment. This study assesses technology trade from the perspective of the competing supplier countries. This... -
Sadat And Begin: The Domestic Politics Of Peacemaking by Melvin A Friedlander
RRP: $263.25$217.82The architects of the Camp David process expected their efforts to become a broad and inclusive framework for peace in the Middle East. Dr. Friedlander's book demonstrates how domestic factors affecting policy decisions made in both Cairo and Jerusalem... -
Polity And Society In Contemporary North Africa by I. William Zartman
RRP: $263.25$217.82In the twenty-five years since the last comprehensive book on state and society in North Africa was published, the nations of the Maghrib have undergone profound social, political, and economic changes. In this book, the foremost U.S. specialists on the... -
Strategic Implications Of The New Oil Reality by Shemuel Meir
RRP: $263.25$217.04Originally published in 1986. The oil crises of the 1970s and the shockwaves they sent throughout the industrialized countries and the Third World, appeared at one point to be ushering in an "Arab Century." But the first half of the 1980s... -
Law, Personalities, And Politics Of The Middle East: Essays In Honor Of Majid Khadduri by James Piscatori
RRP: $263.25$229.48This book is a tribute to Majid Khadduri and focuses on the three principal fields of his own work: Islamic and international law; ideas and personalities in the Arab world; and politics and diplomacy in the Middle East.Book InformationISBN... -
A Bibliography Of Afghanistan by K. S. McLachlan
RRP: $263.25$228.70This comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available. Following the pattern established by one of its major data... -
Oil Revenues in the Gulf Emirates: Patterns of Allocation and Impact on Economic Development by Ali Khalifa Al-Kuwari
RRP: $263.25$229.48This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the Gulf Emirates, illuminating many aspects of the socio-economic forces and processes operating on and in the region. It assesses actual oil revenues received and shows the impact oil revenues... -
Migration, Mechanization, And Agricultural Labor Markets In Egypt by Alan Richards
RRP: $263.25$229.48After a long period of stability, Egypt's agricultural sector experienced sudden change due to the 1973 oil price increases and Anwar Sadat's Open Door economic policies. Workers left rural Egypt for the cities and high-wage jobs in the oil-exporting... -
Echoes Of The Intifada: Regional Repercussions Of The Palestinian-israeli Conflict by Rex Brynen
RRP: $165.73$144.01Important historical turning points often seem to be unpredicted until they are upon us. For most observers (the author included) the Palestinian uprising that erupted in December 1987 was unexpected-not because the depth of Palestinian national... -
Afghan Resistance: The Politics of Survival by Grant M. Farr
RRP: $263.25$229.48The people of Afghanistan stand at a crossroads, with resistance to the Soviet occupation entering its eighth year. The question of survival must be weighed against the difficult political choices of fighting or reaching an accommodation with the... -
Arms Control And The New Middle East Security Environment by Shai Feldman
RRP: $263.25$229.48This volume incorporates the talks delivered at a conference on 11 Arms Control and the New Middle East Security Environment, 11 held in Ginosar (Israel) in January 1992. The conference was organized within the framework of the Project on Security and... -
The Wald Report: The Decline Of Israeli National Security Since 1967 by Emanuel Wald
RRP: $263.25$217.82It took only fifteen years for an army once known for its agility and operational brilliance to turn into a clumsy bureaucratic labyrinth, according to Colonel Emanuel Wald's report to Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Levi. Not surprisingly, Wald's... -
Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume X, 1986 by Itamar Rabinovich
RRP: $54.58$48.13Middle East Contemporary Survey is an annual record and analysis of political, economic, military, and international developments in the Middle East. Designed to be an up-to-date reference, it examines the rapidly changing Middle Eastern scene in all its... -
The Political Economy of Investment in Syria by Linda Matar
RRP: $87.73$87.69Linda Matar examines Syria's failure to promote employment-generating investment prior to the uprising. Tackling the thorny issue of the inapplicability of modern investment theory to a developing country, she situates the analysis of investment in Syria... -
When Blame Backfires: Syrian Refugees and Citizen Grievances in Jordan and Lebanon by Anne Marie Baylouny
RRP: $66.30$58.29The recent influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan and Lebanon has stimulated domestic political action against these countries' governments. This is the dramatic argument at the heart of Anne Marie Baylouny's When Blame Backfires. Baylouny examines the... -
The Two Yemens by Robin Leonard Bidwell
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book tells the story of the Yemeni people, treating them as a single people. It shows that all over South West Arabia a unique civilisation arose in antiquity and many of its manifestations so conformed to the Yemeni temperament that they have... -
The Cautious Bear: Soviet Military Engagement In Middle East Wars In The Post-1967 Era by Efraim Karsh
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book analyzes Soviet military engagement in Middle East wars in the post-1967 era. It clarifies the nature and characteristics of this engagement, offers an explanation for its occurrence, and tries to predict future trends.Book InformationISBN... -
Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume Xv: 1991: Volume XV: 1991 by Ami Ayalon
RRP: $253.50$218.61This is the fifteenth volume in a series that provides up-to-date summation and evaluation of the rapidly changing events in an exceptionally complex region of the world. This volume covers the period January through December 1991 and offers in-depth... -
Authoritarian Power And State Formation In Ba`thist Syria: Army, Party, And Peasant by Raymond A Hinnebusch
RRP: $253.50$218.61The social and economic forces that worked together to bring the Ba'thist party to power in 1963: the failure of traditional and liberal leadership, an agrarian crisis, the development of party ideology, the politicization of the army and rural... -
Galilee Divided: The Israel-lebanon Frontier, 1916-1984 by Frederic C Hof
RRP: $253.50$218.61This monograph looks at the problems on and around the southern boundary of Lebanon from the time it was first established by the French and British after World War I. The author turns to the Zionist thirst for the waters of the Litani River, the... -
Emigration And Economic Development: The Case Of The Yemen Arab Republic by Jon C. Swanson
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book presents an analysis of Yemen's progress towards economic self-sufficiency. The study reveals that minimal investment opportunities and migration-induced labor shortages has driven wages up so much that labor-intensive agriculture is no longer... -
The Warriors Of Islam: Iran's Revolutionary Guard by Kenneth Katzman
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book shows that the revolutionary guard has resisted professionalization on the key aspect of war decision making. It explains how the Guard was able to resist ideological dilution despite its need to adopt a rationalized and complex organizational... -
Political Adaptation In Sa'udi Arabia: A Study Of The Council Of Ministers by Summer S Huyette
RRP: $77.98$68.37Examining the evolution of the Sa'udi government from 1901 to 1983, a period of major social and political transformation, Dr, Huyette looks at the ways in which a traditional elite, the Al Sa'ud, has managed to surmount the formidable obstacles of...