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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps: Defining Iran's Military Doctrine by Alma Keshavarz 9781350255654
RRP: €26.17€22.94The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has yet to be directly analysed as a military security complex with significant political influence. This book explores Iran's IRGC and Qods Force, focussing on its development following the Iranian... -
The Son King: Reform and Repression in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed
RRP: €29.75€25.68In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi regime operatives, shocking the international community and tarnishing the reputation of Muhammad bin Salman, the kingdom's young, reformist crown prince. Domestically, bin Salman's reforms have... -
Last Punisher: A SEAL Team THREE Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi by Kevinrocke Lacz 9781501127267
RRP: €22.60€14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501127267Author Kevinrocke LaczFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't by Toby Matthiesen 9780804785730
€16.71As popular uprisings spread across the Middle East, popular wisdom often held that the Gulf States would remain beyond the fray. In Sectarian Gulf, Toby Matthiesen paints a very different picture, offering the first assessment of the Arab Spring across... -
Defence Diplomacy: Strategic Engagement and Interstate Conflict by Daniel H. Katz 9781032174235
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book analyzes examples of strategic engagement in order to identify the factors which contribute to the success or failure of defence diplomacy in preventing interstate conflict.For more than a century, nations have engaged in defence diplomacy to... -
Eagle Down: The Last Special Forces Fighting the Forever War by Jessica Donati
RRP: €26.18€17.33In 2013, President Obama began the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan. But only a year into the withdrawal, Obama began allowing the U.S. military to resume combat operations, relying almost entirely on U.S. Special Operations forces. It was the beginning... -
August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan by Mr Andrew Quilty
RRP: €23.80€17.83Told through the eyes of witnesses to the fall of Kabul, Walkley award-winning journalist Andrew Quilty's debut book offers a remarkable record of this historic moment. As night fell on 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul, capital of Afghanistan... -
The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy by Yassin al-Haj Saleh
RRP: €26.18€22.74Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a leftist dissident who spent sixteen years as a political prisoner and now lives in exile. He describes with precision and fervour the events that led to Syria's 2011 uprising, the metamorphosis of the popular revolution into a... -
A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa by Joel Beinin
RRP: €30.93€26.23This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how... -
Hezbollah: Mobilisation and Power by Aurelie Daher
RRP: €35.70€31.93Forty years after its foundation, Lebanese Hezbollah remains an organization difficult to understand. An Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national Resistance to have ever defeated Tel-Aviv's troops, a patriotic... -
These Chains Will Be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons by Ramzy Baroud
RRP: €23.79€20.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762099Author Ramzy BaroudFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *... -
Politics and Governance in the Middle East by Vincent Durac
RRP: €40.45€36.05This textbook offers a systematic and up-to-date introduction to politics and society in the Middle East. Taking a thematic approach that engages with core theory as well as a wide range of research, it examines postcolonial political, social and... -
ISIS: A History by Fawaz A. Gerges 9780691175799
RRP: €20.22€15.87The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading... -
The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey by Soner Cagaptay 9781784538262
RRP: €47.60€35.47In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its right-wing populist president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an... -
An Introduction to Middle East Politics by Benjamin MacQueen 9781412962162
RRP: €38.07€31.93This new edition of An Introduction to Middle East Politics continues to provide an expansive survey of Middle East politics, thoroughly revised and restructured in response to events currently taking place. Written in a lively and accessible manner,... -
Inside the Middle East: Entering a New Era by Avi Melamed
RRP: €35.70€22.86Why Is the Middle East Entering a "New Era?" Is It a New Dawn? Is It a Setting Sun? In the third decade of the twenty-first century, the Middle East is entering a new era. A multifaceted and intricate equilibrium will write the next chapter of this... -
The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey through Modern Turkey by Kaya Genc
RRP: €35.70€26.17Turkey is a land torn between East and West, and between its glorious past and a dangerous, unpredictable future. After the violence of an attempted military coup against President Erdogan in 2016, an event which shocked the world, journalist and... -
Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know by Barnett R. Rubin
RRP: €13.08€9.25Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Soviet Union invaded in 1980, Afghanistan descended into an unending conflict that featured at various points... -
Contested Politics in Tunisia: Civil Society in a Post-Authoritarian State by Edwige Fortier
RRP: €36.88€26.05Several thousand new civil society organisations were legally established in Tunisia following the 2010-11 uprising that forced the long-serving dictator, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, from office. These organisations had different visions for a new Tunisia,... -
The Privatization of Israeli Security by Shir Hever
€27.63Between 1994-2014, Israel's security service was transformed, becoming one of the most extreme examples of privatised security in the world. This book is an investigation into this period and the conditions that created 'Occupation Inc.': the institution... -
A Concise History of the Middle East by Arthur Goldschmidt
RRP: €59.49€52.96A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this turbulent region. Spanning from pre-Islam to the present day, it explores the evolution of Islamic institutions and culture, the influence of the West,... -
The Secret Gate: a true story of courage and sacrifice during the collapse of Afghanistan by Mitchell Zuckoff
RRP: €22.60€15.27The incredible story of a breathtaking rescue in the frenzied final hours of the US evacuation of Afghanistan — and how a brave Afghan mother and a compassionate American officer engineered a daring escape. When the US began its withdrawal from... -
Axis of Resistance: Towards an Independent Middle East by Tim Anderson 9781949762167
RRP: €24.98€21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949762167Author Tim AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *... -
ISIS: A History by Fawaz A. Gerges 9780691170008
RRP: €29.75€22.82The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS, and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading... -
Arab Fall: How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days by Eric Trager 9781626163621
RRP: €33.32€29.10How did Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood win power so quickly after the dramatic "Arab Spring" uprising that ended President Hosni Mubarak's thirty-year reign in February 2011? And why did the Brotherhood fall from power even more quickly, culminating with the... -
The Foreign Policies of Middle East States by Raymond A. Hinnebusch 9781626370296
RRP: €29.69€24.59This new edition of The Foreign Policies of Middle East States reflects the momentous events and shifting dynamics that have occurred in the region since the first edition was published. Working within a common analytical framework, the authors offer a... -
Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil: Histories and Ethnographies of Black Gold by Nelida Fuccaro
RRP: €101.15€82.44Studies how oil has shaped the societies and cultures of the modern and contemporary Middle East Proposes a new research agenda for the study of oil's varied lives in the modern and contemporary Middle East Includes 13 case studies, including 2 photo... -
Iran, Islam and Democracy - The Politics of Managing Change by Ali M. Ansari 9781909942981
RRP: €35.70€35.30Current developments in Iran are forcing a fundamentalreassessment of the relationship between Islam and democracyand the processes of democratization in the Muslim world.While some scholars have argued that 'Islam' and 'democracy'are essentially... -
Crossing the Sea: With Syrians on the Exodus to Europe by Wolfgang Bauer 9781908276827
RRP: €17.85€12.83Award-winning journalist Wolfgang Bauer and photographer Stanislav Krupar were the first undercover reporters to document the journey of Syrian refugees from Egypt to Europe. Posing as English teachers in 2014, they were direct witnesses to the brutality... -
The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East by Jamie Allinson
RRP: €27.36€27.19The 'Arab Spring' has come to symbolise defeated hopes for democracy and social justice in the Middle East. In this book, Jamie Allinson demonstrates how these defeats were far from inevitable. Rather than conceptualising the 'Arab Spring' as a series of... -
Iraq since the Invasion: People and Politics in a State of Conflict by Keiko Sakai
RRP: €44.02€38.71This book addresses the complex events and unexpected outcomes of military intervention by the United States and its allies in Iraq in 2003. Considering the long-term outcomes of the intervention, this volume examines economic collapse, societal... -
What Next for Britain in the Middle East?: Security, Trade and Foreign Policy after Brexit by Michael Stephens 9780755617166
RRP: €29.74€25.92As the UK enters a period of intense public introspection in the wake of Brexit, this book takes on one of the key questions emerging from the divisive process: what is Britain's place in the world? The Middle East is one of the regions the UK has been... -
The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by James L. Gelvin
RRP: €13.08€11.41Since Muhammad Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, galvanizing the Arab uprisings that continue today, the entire Middle East landscape has changed in ways that were unimaginable years before. In spite of the early hype... -
Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World by Paul Collier 9780190659158
RRP: €24.98€15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190659158Author Fellow Paul CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 18mm -
Security Politics in the Gulf Monarchies: Continuity Amid Change by David B. Roberts
RRP: €35.70€27.16The Gulf monarchies-Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates-play crucial roles in world markets and politics. Their economies, which have traditionally been driven by oil revenues, have simultaneously propelled... -
Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine, 1931-2013 by Lev Luis Grinberg 9781618113788
RRP: €29.74€27.72In Mo(ve)ments of Resistance , Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative covering the time from the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) to the Oslo Accords and the... -
New Order in the Gulf: The Rise of the UAE by Dina Esfandiary
RRP: €29.74€25.92For over a decade now, thinking on regional relations in the Gulf has focused on the competition for regional hegemony between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Today, this perspective is outdated. The smaller Gulf Arab states, led by the United Arab Emirates, are... -
A Political Economy of the Middle East by Melani Cammett 9780813349381
€56.25A Political Economy of the Middle East is the most comprehensive analysis of developments in the political economy of the region over the past several decades, examining the interaction of economic development processes, state systems and policies, and... -
Syria 2011-2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem by Azmi Bishara
€109.33Azmi Bishara's book on the Syrian Revolution is one of the most comprehensive and profound works on the subject published to date. Translated here into English for the first time, the study examines the complex roots of Syria's political and sectarian... -
Fragile Politics: Weak States in the Greater Middle East by Mehran Kamrava
RRP: €29.75€25.68The 2011 Arab uprisings precipitated the relatively quick collapse of a number of Middle Eastern states once perceived as invincible. The Tunisian and Egyptian states succumbed to revolution-ary upheavals early on, followed by that of Qadhafi's Libya...