Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
About the Book Series
This series is concerned with recent political developments in the region. It will have a range of different approaches and include both single authored monographs and edited volumes covering issues such as international relations, foreign intervention, security, political Islam, democracy, ideology and public policy.
Israel’s Knesset Members: A Comparative Study of an Undefined Job
1st Edition
By Susan Hattis Rolef
January 29, 2024
Taking Members of the Israeli Knesset (MKs) as a case study, this book offers a comparative analysis of the various roles performed by Members of Parliament (MPs) within the framework of their job in democracies around the world. Based on the author’s experience of working in and for the ...
Qatar: The Practice of Rented Power
1st Edition
By Diana Galeeva
January 29, 2024
This book explains the parameters of Qatar’s political growth by developing an alternative theory of power – ‘rented’ power. The author demonstrates how Qatar’s emergence as a regional power can be solely explained by its capacity as a gas-rich rentier state. By using Qatar as an empirical case ...
The End of the Middle East Peace Process: The Failure of US Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Samer Bakkour
January 29, 2024
Presenting the Middle East peace process as an extension of US foreign policy, this book argues that ongoing interventions justified in the name of ‘peace’ sustain and reproduce hegemonic power. With an interdisciplinary approach, this book questions the conceptualisation and general understanding...
The Kurds in Erdogan's "New" Turkey: Domestic and International Implications
1st Edition
Edited
By Nikos Christofis
September 25, 2023
This book focuses on the AKP government since 2002 during which time the state’s approach to the Kurdish Question has undergone several changes. Examining what preceded and followed the failed putsch of 2016, it explains and critiques that situates the Kurdish Question in its broader context. It ...
Cronyism and Elite Capture in Egypt: From Businessmen Cabinet to Military Inc.
1st Edition
By Sarah Smierciak
May 31, 2023
Examining business-state networks in Egypt (1991–2020), this book highlights the complicity of international actors in facilitating inequality and elite capture. Using interdisciplinary methodology, it argues that Western actors promoting market liberalization have served as central ...
Islamic Identity and Development after the Ottomans: The Arab Middle East
1st Edition
By Özay Mehmet
March 31, 2023
Exploring themes of identity and development in the post-Ottoman Arab world, this book updates the author’s earlier Islamic Identity and Development (Routledge, 1990) to analyse the root causes of chaos, civil war, and conflict in the Islamic Core today. Adopting a neo-Ottomanist framework, and ...
Indigenous Land Rights in Israel: A Comparative Study of the Bedouin
1st Edition
By Morad Elsana
January 09, 2023
Introducing the Negev–Bedouin land issue from the international indigenous land rights perspective, this comparative study suggests options for the recognition of their land. The book demonstrates that the Bedouin land dispossession, like many indigenous peoples’, progressed through several phases ...
Lebanese Political Parties: Dream of a Republic
1st Edition
By Christian Thuselt
January 09, 2023
This book examines Lebanese political parties and their encounters with modernity. Taking three, mainly Christian parties as an example, the book refutes the idea of Middle Eastern parties being backwards or antiquated. By combining historical and anthropological perspectives, it is shown that ...
Nationalism and Islamism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: The Emergence of the Kurdistan Islamic Union
1st Edition
By Mohammad Salih Mustafa
January 09, 2023
Exploring a new political phenomenon in the Middle East, this book studies the reconciliation of nationalism and Islamism by Islamic political parties in the context of nation states. Islamism in Kurdistan has become significantly framed by the politics of nationalism. Although the concept ...
Saudi Interventions in Yemen: A Historical Comparison of Ontological Insecurity
1st Edition
By Caroline F. Tynan
January 09, 2023
This book explains the Saudi decision to launch a direct military intervention in Yemen in 2015 by comparing it with the monarchy’s response to Egyptian intervention into Yemen in 1962. It does so through the lens of domestic politics by tracing the monarchy’s response to the opposition in both ...
Turkey's Electoral Geography: Trends, Behaviors, and Identities
1st Edition
Edited
By Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu, Gülsen Kaya Osmanbaşoğlu
January 09, 2023
Analyzing Turkey’s electoral geography, this volume evaluates the geographical repercussions of the elections in Turkey since the establishment of multiparty politics in 1950. The book focuses on the last two decades, examining the interaction between electoral behavior and regional dynamics. ...
Western Democracy and the AKP: A Dialogical Analysis of Turkey’s Democratic Crisis
1st Edition
By Mehmet Celil Çelebi
December 23, 2022
Upturning the typical view of Turkey’s democratic trajectory as a product of authoritarian assault or unfortunate circumstances, this book argues that the AKP, first elected in 2002, has consistently advanced a narrative of democracy as the work of an elite working for the 'National Will'. ...