China Considers the Middle East

• Author : Lillian Craig Harris
• Publisher : I.B. Tauris
• Release : 31 December 1993

The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government.

• Author : Edmund Burke,Nejde Yaghoubian
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 06 July 2022

Until the 1993 first edition of this book, one thing had been missing in Middle Eastern history—depiction of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites. Now updated and revised, the second edition has added six new portraits of individuals set in the contemporary period. It features twenty-four brief biographies drawn from throughout the Middle East—from Morocco to Afghanistan—in which the reader is provided with vantage points from which to understand modern

• Author : Barry Rubin
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 17 March 2015

Provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the field of Organizational Behavior. This book covers the foundations of the scientific method, theory development, and the accrual of scientific knowledge in the field. It introduces the ideas of pioneers whose work pre-dates the emergence of Organizational Behavior.

• Author : Lisa McCoy
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 17 November 2014

The history of the Middle East is long and complex. In the MAJOR MUSLIM NATIONS series, the term "Middle East" refers to the region encompassing 23 countries?Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.This book provides an overview of the history of the Middle Eastern countries, along with information about the region's geography, central religious beliefs, governments and economies of

• Author : Steven Carol
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 26 September 2019

The Middle East can be bewildering, which is why we need to connect the dots that pull together the political, economic, diplomatic, military, cultural, and religious pieces of the puzzle. Professor Steven Carol slashes through the confusion with a topical approach, focusing on key issues such as the geographic features of the Middle East, demographics of the region, the influence of Islam, political processes, shifting alliances, war in the region, and the need for security. He also takes a careful

• Author : Christopher Catherwood
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 24 February 2011

Western civilization began in the Middle East: Judaism and Christianity, as well as Islam, were born there. For over a millennium, the Islamic empires were ahead of the West in learning, technology and medicine, and were militarily far more powerful. It took another three hundred centuries for the West to catch up, and overtake, the Middle East. Why does it seem different now? Why does Osama bin Laden see 1918, with the fall of the Ottoman Empire, as the year everything

• Author : Daniel Meier
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 21 May 2020

This volume focuses on the influence that borders in the Middle East can have on actors’ identity building, as well as how local, national, or transnational actors re/ define borders and boundaries. The Middle East is facing a political crisis, revealed by the Arab uprisings, that is affecting states’ borders in a paradoxical way: while local, communal, or tribal dissent tends to contest international borders, states are trying to affirm their control over national territory in building border fences. Focusing

• Author : Ahmed Al-Rawi
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• Release : 16 July 2021

Cyberwars in the Middle East argues that hacking is a form of online political disruption whose influence flows vertically in two directions (top-bottom or bottom-up) or horizontally. These hacking activities are performed along three political dimensions: international, regional, and local. Author Ahmed Al-Rawi argues that political hacking is an aggressive and militant form of public communication employed by tech-savvy individuals, regardless of their affiliations, in order to influence politics and policies. Kenneth Waltz’s structural realism theory is linked to

• Author : Clive H. Schofield,Richard N. Schofield
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 10 September 2012

Middle East and North Africa brings together some of today's most influential analysts of a region which from colonial times to the present has seen great territorial change.

• Author : Shahram Akbarzadeh
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 26 March 2019

This handbook examines the regional and international dynamics of the Middle East. It challenges the state society dichotomy to make sense of decision-making and behavior by ruling regimes. The 33 chapter authors include the world’s leading scholars of the Middle East and International Relations (IR) in order to make sense of the region. This synthesis of area studies expertise and IR theory provides a unique and rigorous account of the region’s current dynamics, which have reached a crisis point

• Author : Abid A. Al-Marayati
• Publisher : Brooks/Cole
• Release : 06 July 1972

• Author : Philip Steele
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release : 06 July 2022

Part of the kingfisher Knowledge series, this work takes a geo-political view of the Middle East. It provides information on countries, people and cultures; themes such as religion, resources, historical background, and politics; and everyday life. It conveys the richness and diversity of Middle Eastern culture and, its global context.

• Author : John Gulick
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 06 July 1976

• Author : Abdel R. Omran,Farzaneh Roudi-Fahimi
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 06 July 1993

• Author : Pinar Bilgin
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 15 February 2019

In this new and fully revised edition Pinar Bilgin provides an accessible yet critical analysis of regional security in the Middle East, analysing the significant developments that have taken place in the past years. Drawing from a wide range of critical approaches to security, the book offers a comprehensive study of pasts, presents, and futures of security in the region. The book distinguishes itself from previous (critical) studies on regional security by opening up both ‘region’ and ‘security’. Different from