Sites of Pluralism
Scholars and policymakers, struggling to make sense of the ongoing chaos in the Middle East, have been focusing on the possible causes of the escalation in both inter-state and intra-state…
Books
Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution
The advent of the principle of popular sovereignty during the French Revolution inspired an unintended but momentous change in international law. In “Sovereignty, International Law, and the French Revolution” Edward…
Spoken Arabic, "The Third Language"
This book is an attempt to implement what Tawfiq al-Hakim called for in the middle of the last century, so that we may contribute to unifying the Arabic dialects to…
Staking claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India
The contributions in “Staking claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India” explore movements against capital and the state in contemporary rural India in three complementary ways. First,…
State-Society Relations in the Arab Gulf States
This book examines the strategies and dynamics through which state-society relations in the Arab Gulf region have been cultivated, and explores the alternative political, social, economic and popular changes that…
Target Markets
This book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalist and terrorist practice. Assessing an increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed at commercial entities in urban areas, with…
Tawfīq. Show Me God
This translated collection “Show Me God”, originally written by playwright Tawfiq al-Hakim, includes twenty short stories that combine a curious, elegant, and mysterious exposition of the human psyche and its…
The Basics of American Politics, 13th edition
The Basics of American Politics covers all the terms and topics needed to understand the nuts-and-bolts of American government and politics. Wasserman uses a dynamic game metaphor to engage the…
The Ethics of Wilfrid Sellars
Wilfrid Sellars’s ethical theory was rich and deeply innovative. On Sellars’s view, moral judgments express a special kind of shared intention. Thus, we should see Sellars as an early advocate…
The Great Game in West Asia: Iran, Turkey and the South Caucasus
The Great Game in West Asia examines the strategic competition between Iran and Turkey for power and influence in the South Caucasus. These neighboring Middle East powers have vied for…
The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar
The blockade of Qatar that began in June 2017 has not only had important long-term implications for life in Qatar, but also cast a giant shadow over future relations between…
The Gulf Monarchies and Climate Change: Abu Dhabi and Qatar in an Era of Natural Unsustainability
This book examines whether oil and natural gas-dependent rentier monarchies can keep their natural resource use and the environment in balance. Studying the cases of Abu Dhabi and Qatar, Mari…
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