TY  - BOOK
AU  - Owen,Roger
TI  - State, power and politics in the making of the modern Middle East
SN  - 0415297133 (hardback)
U1  - 320.956  
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Africa, North
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-271) and index; PART I. States and state building --; The end of empires : the emergence of the modern Middle Eastern states --; The growth of state power in the Arab world : the single-party regimes --; The growth of state power in the Arab world under family rule, and the Libyan alternative --; Arab nationalism, Arab unity and the practice of intra-Arab state relations --; State and politics in Israel, Iran and Turkey from the Second World War --; The remaking of the Middle Eastern political environment between the two Gulf wars --; PART II. Themes in contemporary Middle Eastern politics --; The politics of economic restructuring --; Parties, elections and the vexed question of democracy in the Arab world --; The politics of religious revival --; The military in and out of politics --; Some important non-state actors --; PART III. The impact of the 11 September attacks --; America attempts to remake the Middle East --; Conclusion; The Middle East at the beginning of the twenty-first century
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