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Saudi Arabia 2000 Pbdirect: A Strategy for Growth by Jean Paul Cleron 9781138846722
RRP: £27.99£24.28This book is concerned with the economic aspects of Saudi Arabian development. It analyzes the structure of the Saudi Arabian economy and gives a detailed description of the simulation model. The book presents and comments on the results of the model... -
Western Strategic Interests in Saudi Arabia by Anthony H. Cordesman 9781138846395
£96.60Saudi Arabia's strategic relations with the West involve clear and direct common strategic interests in the Gulf and in the Near East. While they compete in terms of trade and oil prices, they share a common commitment to private enterprise and to... -
The Cohesion of Saudi Arabia Pbdirect: Evolution of Political Identity by Christine Moss Helms 9781138845763
£93.60Saudi Arabia is no longer regarded as quite the invincible pillar of Islam it so recently seemed. Its authority within the Islamic world has been challenged by the Ayatollahs in Iran and its dominant position within Opec has been seriously eroded. Most... -
Intellectual dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa by Ewan Stein 9781138842441
RRP: £86.99£75.54More than three years after the beginning of the wave of Arab uprisings, an understanding of the role of intellectuals in political change across the region has never been more important. This timely volume on Intellectuals in the Modern Middle East... -
Morocco: Challenges to tradition and modernity by James N. Sater 9781138828261
RRP: £130.00£112.11The first edition of Morocco was published one year before the mass protests of the Arab Spring rocked the Moroccan state. Post-Arab Spring, the country has a new constitution and government, but the state remains uncompromising on any true reform of the... -
The Role of Government in the Industrialization of Iraq 1950-1965 by Ferhang Jalal 9781138820302
RRP: £32.99£29.16Since 1950 the governments of Iraq have attempted vigorously to develop the economy and have stressed industrial development. Here Dr Ferhang Jalal discusses, analyses and appraises a number of policies adopted by the government of Iraq designed to... -
Oil, Industrialization and Development in the Arab Gulf States by Atif Kubursi 9781138820265
RRP: £32.99£29.16Were oil supplies everlasting and the demand for oil strong and continuous, economic diversification in the Gulf would be pointless. However oil reserves are finite and non-renewable and the world demand for oil from the Gulf region is simply not stable... -
The Middle Eastern Village: Changing Economic and Social Relations by Richard Lawless 9781138820227
RRP: £25.99£23.03Rapid and uneven change to the fabric of rural life is widespread in modern Middle Eastern countries. Modernisation, usually in the Western model, has often brought major improvements in agricultural technology, education and public health but has also... -
Arab Manpower: The Crisis of Development by J. S. Birks 9781138820029
RRP: £32.99£29.56The Arab world increasingly falls into two divisions, the capital-poor and the capital-rich countries (where capital means, in essence, oil). In the capital-rich countries shortage of labour is the chief constraint on growth. In the capital-poor... -
Arab Oil Policies in the 1970s: Opportunity and Responsibility by Yusuf A. Sayigh 9781138820074
RRP: £22.99£20.16Until 1973 few people, either in the advanced, industrial countries or in the developing countries of the Third World, thought seriously on the issues and complexities involved in the production and marketing of the oil on which they relied. It was only... -
Libya Since Independence: Economic and Political Development by J.A. Allan 9781138820203
RRP: £32.99£29.16Since its independence in 1951, Libya has experienced rapid economic and social change. Many of these developments, though dramatic, have not been comprehensively documented until now. One of the problems that Libya has had to face has been the... -
Islam and the Political Economy of Meaning: Comparative Studies of Muslim Discourse by William R. Roff 9781138818385
£92.00To be a Muslim is to be a part of a culture with distinct beliefs, ideas, institutional forms and prescriptive roles. Yet there is a complex inter-relationship between a system of knowledge and belief, such as Islam, and the immediate political, economic... -
The Position of the Chief in the Modern Political System of Ashanti: A Study of the Influence of Contemporary Social Changes on Ashanti Political Institutions by K. A. Busia 9781138492240
£99.00Originally published in 1951, this book provides an account of the traditional status and functions of the Asanti chief. The effects of British administration on the powers of the chief and his council are described, as are the tensions which the... -
Benin Studies by R. E. Bradbury 9781138492080
£112.01This collection of R. E. Bradbury's papers, originally published in 1973 includes edited sections of his (then hitherto) unpublished thesis on the Benin village in Western Nigeria. The book is arranged in 3 parts: historical and political studies of the... -
The Arab Economy in Israel: The Dynamics of a Region's Development by Raja Khalidi 9781138811881
£89.00The Arab enclaves that exist within Israel constitute a definite economic unit. Despite linkages and subservice to the national economy the region exhibits a range of independent production and consumption modes that suggest potential economic... -
The Middle Eastern Village: Changing Economic and Social Relations by Richard Lawless 9781138811836
£93.60Rapid and uneven change to the fabric of rural life is widespread in modern Middle Eastern countries. Modernisation, usually in the Western model, has often brought major improvements in agricultural technology, education and public health but has also... -
Libya Since Independence: Economic and Political Development by J. A. Allan 9781138811775
£111.61Since its independence in 1951, Libya has experienced rapid economic and social change. Many of these developments, though dramatic, have not been comprehensively documented until now. One of the problems that Libya has had to face has been the... -
Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century: Islam, Ethnicity and Resistance by Michael Dillon 9781138811058
RRP: £135.00£117.68There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the far northwest province of China, where the Uyghurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim people who... -
Mobilizing Human Resources in the Arab World by R. Paul Shaw 9781138810518
£92.00R. Paul Shaw has travelled widely in the Arab world, obtaining data and gathering impressions first-hand from national and local planners. In this book, he identifies population and manpower problems that are likely to become more serious and more... -
Arab Industrial Integration: A Strategy for Development by Elias T. Ghantus 9781138810471
£59.86The Arab countries are increasingly recognising their importance as a regional economic grouping. Given the highly skewed distribution of natural, human and financial resources, the course of economic development in the Arab countries seems to be... -
The Economic Development of the Yemen Arab Republic by Ragaei El-Mallakh 9781138810136
£91.60The recent economic development of the Yemen Arab Republic is in stark contrast to the centuries of isolation that had marked the country prior to the 1962 Revolution. When economic planning was instituted in the 1970s, the nation was confronted by the... -
Qatar: Development of an Oil Economy by Ragaei El Mallakh 9781138810075
£111.61No region in the world has seen so much development activity in the last ten years as the Gulf area. Since `black gold' catapulted the oil-producing countries into the limelight of the international political and economic scene, there has been a... -
Arab Oil Policies in the 1970s: Opportunity and Responsibility by Yusuf A. Sayigh 9781138809963
£89.00Until 1973 few people, either in the advanced, industrial countries or in the developing countries of the Third World, thought seriously on the issues and complexities involved in the production and marketing of the oil on which they relied. It was only... -
The Political and Economic Development of Modern Turkey by William Hale 9781138820289
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book outlines the evolution of policy and the course of Turkey's economic development since the foundation of Turkey's republic in 1923. Turkey is a fast-developing country with, over the last seventy years, a radically transformed economic and... -
Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran? by Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami 9781138782341
RRP: £100.00£86.61The main focus of Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction is to identify components and elements which define Persian modernist fiction, placing an emphasis on literary concepts and devices which provide the dynamics of the evolutionary... -
Japan's Cold War Policy and China: Two Perceptions of Order, 1960-1972 by Yutaka Kanda 9781138744394
RRP: £135.00£117.28From 1960s to the early 1970s in East Asia, the Cold War bipolar system, centering on the US and USSR, shifted to a more complicated structure. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, Washington and Moscow accelerated the detente process, leading China to fear a... -
China's Presence in the Middle East: The Implications of the One Belt, One Road Initiative by Anoushiravan Ehteshami 9781138736672
RRP: £135.00£117.28Chinese President Xi Jinping's "One Belt, One Road" (OBOR) vision, heralded as an attempt to revive the pre-modern Silk Route, is intended to strengthen West Asia's economic links with China through ambitious infrastructural projects. Central... -
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora: Living at the End of Days by Marzia Balzani 9781138715851
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book is a study of the UK-based Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the context of the twentieth-century South Asian diaspora. Originating in late nineteenth-century Punjab, the Ahmadis are today a vibrant international religious movement; they are also a... -
Judicializing the Administrative State: The Rise of the Independent Regulatory Commissions in the United States, 1883-1937 by Hiroshi Okayama 9781138306653
RRP: £135.00£117.28A basic feature of the modern US administrative state taken for granted by legal scholars but neglected by political scientists and historians is its strong judiciality. Formal, or court-like, adjudication was the primary method of first-order agency... -
The City in Russian Culture by Pavel Lyssakov 9781138310230
RRP: £135.00£117.68Cities are constructed and organized by people, and in turn become an important factor in the organization of human life. They are sites of both social encounter and social division and provide for their inhabitants "a sense of place". This... -
Born in Tibet: By Cho gyam Trungpa, the Eleventh Trungpa Tulku, as told to Esme Cramer Roberts by Choegyam Trungpa 9781138333932
RRP: £32.99£29.16This is the story of the early life and escape from the Chinese of a young tulku of Tibet, an incarnate lama of high rank. The book, first published in 1966, shows the quality of human life as lived in Tibet at all levels. The account of his religious... -
Sectarianism in the Contemporary Middle East by Simon Mabon 9781138299641
RRP: £135.00£117.68In recent years, the term sectarianism has been widely used to explain contemporary affairs across the Middle East and North Africa. A range of assumptions about the nature of sectarianism have become prevalent amongst scholars and policy makers who... -
New Histories of South Africa's Apartheid-Era Bantustans by Shireen Ally 9781138290013
RRP: £135.00£117.68The bantustans - or 'homelands' - were created by South Africa's apartheid regime as ethnically-defined territories for Africans. Granted self-governing and 'independent' status by Pretoria, they aimed to deflect the demands for full political... -
Resilience and Collapse in African Savannahs: Causes and consequences of environmental change in east Africa by Michael Bollig 9781138288775
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book assesses the causes and consequences of environmental change in East Africa, asking whether local African communities are sufficiently resilient to cope with the ecological and social challenges that confront them. It focuses on the savannahs... -
Governing Rural Development: Discourses and Practices of Self-help in Australian Rural Policy by Lynda Cheshire 9781138278035
RRP: £49.99£43.50In recent decades, the responsibility for initiating regeneration programmes has been placed firmly in the hands of rural communities, with the rationale being that local people are best placed to know their own problems and, consequently, to develop... -
Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century: New Priorities, New Philosophies by Allen G. Noble 9781138268890
RRP: £25.99£22.63Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century examines a number of related themes including: the traditional approach of local and regional planning initiatives developed within the context of national goals; the current decline of bi-polar... -
EU Enlargement, Region Building and Shifting Borders of Inclusion and Exclusion by James Wesley Scott 9781138259195
RRP: £49.99£43.50The 2004 entry of 10 Central and Eastern European countries, along with Malta and Cyprus, into the EU has caused a huge shift in the EU's external boundaries. The socio-economic and political transformations that this shift has caused not only suggest... -
The City's Hinterland: Dynamism and Divergence in Europe's Peri-Urban Territories by Keith Hoggart 9781138259089
RRP: £13.99£12.76Despite the fact that the rural commuter belts of cities are major loci of population change, economic growth and dynamic social change within city regions, most research tends to ignore this area while focusing on the built-up city core. However, with... -
Les Bira et les Peuplades Limitrophes: Central Africa Belgian Congo Part II by H. van Geluwe 9781138240988
£111.61Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and... -
Les Tribus Ba-Kuba et les Peuplades Apparentees: Central Africa Belgian Congo Part I by Jan Vansina 9781138240841
£106.61Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and...