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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important new landmark ... One of the great strengths of this book is that the argument is anchored in a series of case studies built around four countries: Egypt, Sierra Leone, Israel, and Mexico."--Comparative Political Studies

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewShifting Sands is a compelling narrative of American policy in the Middle East since World War II. Joel S. Migdal dissects America's static strategic model in a region that has undergone four periods of profound change. He pushes back against those who would yield to the temptation of writing the Middle East off as beset by endemic instability. Rather, eschewing visions of grand change, Migdal suggests the temperate yet more effective approach of building alliances and fostering gradual change. This is a book to be read by policy makers and students of the Middle East alike. -- Daniel Kurtzer, Princeton University, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel Exquisitely timely... Read this benchmark study at your earliest opportunity. -- Aharon Klieman Israel Studies Review Shifting Sands remains a powerful and vibrant account of the US foreign policy in the Middle East, with an authoritative analysis of the past, present (and future) socio-political dynamics of the region. European Review of International StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Part I. Introduction 1. The Middle East in the Eye of the Global Storm 2. America's Place in the Middle East Part II. The Cold War and Its Aftermath 3. Failed Partnerships and Fragile Partners 4. Finding a Place in the Middle East: A New Partnership Develops out of Black September 5. The Strategic Partnership Faces Strains: The Yom Kippur War and the Changing Calculus of U.S. Foreign Policy 6. The Strategic Relationship Unravels: The End of the Cold War and the Gulf War of 1990-1991 Part III. A Transformed Region: The Rise and Fall of the Arab Middle East 7. A Changing Lineup of Regional Powerhouses 8. New Boys on the Block: Nonstate Actors 9. A Changing Islam and the Rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran Part IV. The United States and the New Middle East in the Twenty-First Century 10. The Bush Administration and the Arc of Instability 11. Obama: Engaging the Middle East on Multiple Fronts Part V. Conclusion: Looking Back and Looking Forward 12. Ups and Downs of an Everyday Player 13. Toward a New Strategic Partnership? Afterword Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAn important contribution to the expanding literature on everyday politicsTrade Review"This accessible, lively, and engaging work features 12 essays by American, British, and Canadian political science professors." * Choice *"This accessible, lively, and engaging work features 12 essays by American, British, and Canadian political science professors. . . Each essay works individually to illustrate and interrogate the theoretical argument by providing specific examples, and could thus work well as an introduction to this literature for undergraduate or graduate students as well as policy makers. . . .Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword Joel S. Migdal Introduction: A State-in-Society Agenda Adam White PART ONE The Everyday Life of the Turkish State 1. Seeing the State: Kinship Networks and Kurdish Resistance in Early Republican Turkey Ceren Belge 2. Rethinking Turkish State-Kurdish Relations Nicole F. Watts 3. Stat-Society Relations and Religious Freedom: The United States, France, and Turkey Ahmet T. Kuru 4. Prison as a Space of State-Society Contestation: The Case of Turkish F-Type Prisons Arda Ibikoglu PART TWO The Everyday life of the Israeli State 5. Nationalism Complete: The Boundaries of Arab Political Participation in Israel Maha El-Taji Daghash 6. Nation Building and Regulation of Pluri-legal Jurisdictions: The Case of the Israeli Millet System Yuksel Sezgin 7. Collaborating with the Image of the State, Resisting Its Practices, or Both? Israeli Jewish Women's Political Activism Lauren L. Basson 8. The Politics of Fracture: Identity, Difference, and Fissures in the Image of the Singular, Unified Israeli State Patricia J. Woods PART THREE The Everyday Life of the State in Asia and North Africa 9. Revelation and Redemption: Colonial Precedents for the Politics of Islam and Malaysia Iza Hussin 10. (Re)Creating Democracy through Practice: Insights from the Japanese Experience Mary Alice Haddad 11. Negotiating National Identity: Berber Activism and the Moroccan State Senem Aslan 12. Challenging the Practice of the State, but Beholden to Its Image: Women's Activists, Academics, and the Public Take on Egypt's Citizenship Laws Pamela J. Stumpo Conclusion Benjamin Smith Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAn important contribution to the expanding literature on "everyday politics"Trade Review"This accessible, lively, and engaging work features 12 essays by American, British, and Canadian political science professors." * Choice *"This accessible, lively, and engaging work features 12 essays by American, British, and Canadian political science professors. . . Each essay works individually to illustrate and interrogate the theoretical argument by providing specific examples, and could thus work well as an introduction to this literature for undergraduate or graduate students as well as policy makers. . . .Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword Joel S. Migdal Introduction: A State-in-Society Agenda Adam White PART ONE The Everyday Life of the Turkish State 1. Seeing the State: Kinship Networks and Kurdish Resistance in Early Republican Turkey Ceren Belge 2. Rethinking Turkish State-Kurdish Relations Nicole F. Watts 3. Stat-Society Relations and Religious Freedom: The United States, France, and Turkey Ahmet T. Kuru 4. Prison as a Space of State-Society Contestation: The Case of Turkish F-Type Prisons Arda Ibikoglu PART TWO The Everyday life of the Israeli State 5. Nationalism Complete: The Boundaries of Arab Political Participation in Israel Maha El-Taji Daghash 6. Nation Building and Regulation of Pluri-legal Jurisdictions: The Case of the Israeli Millet System Yuksel Sezgin 7. Collaborating with the Image of the State, Resisting Its Practices, or Both? Israeli Jewish Women's Political Activism Lauren L. Basson 8. The Politics of Fracture: Identity, Difference, and Fissures in the Image of the Singular, Unified Israeli State Patricia J. Woods PART THREE The Everyday Life of the State in Asia and North Africa 9. Revelation and Redemption: Colonial Precedents for the Politics of Islam and Malaysia Iza Hussin 10. (Re)Creating Democracy through Practice: Insights from the Japanese Experience Mary Alice Haddad 11. Negotiating National Identity: Berber Activism and the Moroccan State Senem Aslan 12. Challenging the Practice of the State, but Beholden to Its Image: Women's Activists, Academics, and the Public Take on Egypt's Citizenship Laws Pamela J. Stumpo Conclusion Benjamin Smith Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe authors offer a balanced, authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond. They unravel what went right—and what went wrong—in the process, and what lessons we can draw about the forces that help to shape a people.Trade ReviewThis remarkable book recounts how the Palestinians came to be constituted as a people. The authors offer perceptive observations on the status of Palestinian citizens of Israel, the successes and failures of the Oslo process, and the prospects for both Palestinians and Israelis of achieving a peaceful future together. A dispassionate and balanced analysis that provides essential background for understanding the complexities of the Middle East. -- Rashid Khalidi, University of ChicagoA fine general history of the Palestinians now usefully updated with a history of the decade after Oslo. -- L. Carl Brown * Foreign Affairs *This new history updates [Baruch Kimmerling's and Joel S. Midgdal's] 1993 book, Palestinians: The Making of a People, with two new analyses, one judging the effect of the Oslo peace talks and another focusing on the difficult situation of the Palestinians in Israel…In their preface, the authors immediate reject both the common claim by Palestinians that their history as a "singular people" reaches back to ancient times and the Israeli denial of any such entity before it was created by Zionist successes. Instead a "self-identified Palestinian people" evolved only in the last two centuries, as a result of European economic and political pressures and of Jewish settlement…An excellent chronology and full notes enhance a book that deserves the widest possible readership. -- Frank Day * Magill's Literary Annual *Table of ContentsMaps Preface Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction PART ONE FROM REVOLT TO REVOLT:THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE EUROPEAN WORLD AND ZIONISM 1. The Revolt of 1834 and the Making of Modern Palestine 2. The City: Between Nablus and Jaffa 3. Jerusalem: Notables and Nationalism 4. The Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 PART TWO DISPERSAL 5. The Meaning of Disaster PART THREE RECONSTITUTING THE PALESTINIAN NATION 6. Odd Man Out: Arabs in Israel 7. Dispersal, 1948-1967 8. The Feday: Rebirth and Resistance 9. Steering a Path under Occupation PART FOUR ABORTIVE RECONCILIATION 10. The Oslo Process: What Went Right? 11. The Oslo Process: What Went Wrong? Conclusion Chronological List of Major Events Notes Index

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Book SynopsisLooks at democracy and democratic movements in the Middle East. Moving beyond a concern with the growth of Islamicist movements and nationalist states, this book probes the historical experiences of the last hundred years and the social conflict centering on democratic structures and processes from North Africa to Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction PART 1. OVERVIEW The Practice of Electoral Democracy in the Arab East and North Africa: Some Lessons from Nearly a Century's Experience PART 2. POWER AGAINST POWER Populism and Democracy in Turkey, 1946-1961 Taxation without Representation: Authoritarianism and Economic Liberalization in Syria State, Legitimacy, and Democratization in the Maghreb Civil Society in Israel PART 3. PRACTICAL POLITICS Prospects and Difficulties of Democratization in the Middle East American Policy toward Democratic Political Movements in the Middle East Voices of Opposition: The International Committee for a Free Iraq PART 4. THE SHADOW OF LAW Public Confessions in the Islamic Republic of Iran Obstacles to Democratization in Iraq: A Reading of Post-Revolutionary Iraqi History through the Gulf War Private Goods, Public Wrongs, and Civil Society in Some Medieval Arab Theory and Practice Index Contributors

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