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• Dedication
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Tables and Figures
• Tables
• Figures
• Preface to the Fourth Edition
• Map
• Introduction
• The Muddle East?
• Who invented the Middle East?
• Orientalism – the enduring debate
• State types: making sense of multiplicity
• Questions for discussion
• Recommended reading
• CHAPTER ONE: Colonial Rule: Shaping the Destiny of a Region
• Introduction
• Merchants and missionaries
• The First World War and the death of the Ottoman Empire
• 1918 and after: mandates, protectorates and colonial power
• Inter-war European decline
• Sunset empire
• Case study
• Case study
• Case study
• Questions for discussion
• Recommended reading
• CHAPTER TWO: Nationalism: the Quest for Identity and Power
• Introduction
• Nationalism as theory turned into practice
• The birth pangs of Arab nationalism
• New identities and hopes
• The first Arab Revolt: the Arab princes at the helm of British imperial ambition
• Taking state power
• Unification nationalism: the United Arab Republic and beyond
• Case study
• Case study
• Case study
• Questions for discussion
• Recommended reading
• CHAPTER THREE: A Very Political Economy
• Introduction
• Regional wealth and extremes of inequality
• Many models make poor work
• Evolution of oil-based economies
• Sheikhdoms and petro-power
• Rentier futures, profit in decline?
• Labour mobility and employment
• Case study
• Case study
• Case study
• Questions for discussion
• Recommended reading
• CHAPTER FOUR: Conflict and Lack of Peace
• Introduction
• The bigger battle: Arab–Israeli hostility
• Killing dreams: the Israeli–Palestinian dimension
• East against West in the Suez Crisis
• Arab versus Arab
• The lion and the peacock: Arab–Iranian relations
• Sectarian politics
• Case study
• Case study
• Case study
• Questions for discussion
• Recommended reading
• CHAPTER FIVE: Past, Present and Future Politics: Islam
• Introduction
• Islam and politics
• Thoroughly modern Muslims
• Muslim Brotherhood
• Fervour
• Arab Spring and Islamist Autumn
• Case study
• Case study
• Case study
• Questions for discussion
• Recommended reading
• CHAPTER SIX: The Ephemerals of Democracy in the Middle East
• Introduction
• Clash of civilizations
• Democratization or liberalization?
• Socio-economic indicators
• Democracy and civil society
• Islamism and democracy – an oxymoron?
• The Arab Spring and democracy
• Case study
• Case study
• Case study
• Questions for discussion
• Recommended reading
• CHAPTER SEVEN: Women: the Invisible Population
• Introduction
• The role of women in nationalist movements
• Identity and independence
• Women and Islam
• Subjugation
• Feminism and gender discourses
• Case study
• Case study
• Case study
• Questions for discussion
• Recommended reading
• CHAPTER EIGHT: Endangered Species: Ethnicity and Minorities
• Introduction
• Defining ethnicity
• Minority status
• The state and ethnicity
• Modernity in the post-modern age
• Ethno-national and religious battles
• Conflict management and regulation
• Case study
• Case study
• Case study
• Questions for discussion
• Recommended reading
• CHAPTER NINE: Them and Us: the United States, EU and Russia in the Middle East
• Introduction
• National interest
• Relations and rivalries
• Europe, the EU and the Middle East
• The bear awakens: Russia and the Middle East
• Case study
• Case study
• Case study
• Questions for discussion
• Recommended reading
• CHAPTER TEN: The Arab Spring and the New Era of Uncertainty
• Introduction
• Underlying factors
• Winds of change
• Teenage kicks: youth and the Arab Spring
• Rebellion and extremism
• Unfolding spectacle of political change
• Authoritarian resilience
• Uncertain future
• Case study
• Case study
• Case study
• Questions for discussion
• Recommended reading
• Bibliography
• Index
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