State, Power and Politics in the Making of

Roger Owen has fully revised and updated his authoritative text to take into account the very latest developments in the Middle East. This new edition continues to explore the emergence of individual Middle Eastern states since the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War and the key themes that have characterized the region since then. The book continues to serve as an excellent introduction for newcomers to the modern history and politics of this fascinating region.

Roger Owen is A. J. Mayer Professor of Middle East History at Harvard University and a former Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

List of illustrations

ix

Preface

x

Acknowledgments

xiv

List of abbreviations

xv

PART I States and state-building

1

(110)

1 The end of empires: the emergence of the modern Middle Eastern states

5

(18)

2 The growth of state power in the Arab world: the single-party regimes

23

(16)

3 The growth of state power in the Arab world under family rule, and the Libyan alternative

39

(17)

4 Arab nationalism, Arab unity and the practice of intra-Arab state relations

56

(17)

5 State and politics in Israel, Iran and Turkey from the Second World War

73

(17)

6 The remaking of the Middle Eastern political environment between the two Gulf Wars

90

(21)

PART II Themes in contemporary Middle Eastern politics

111

(106)

7 The politics of economic restructuring

113

(18)

8 Parties, elections and the vexed question of democracy in the Arab world

131

(23)

9 The politics of religious revival

154

(24)

10 The military in and out of politics

178

(22)

11 Some important non-state actors

200

(17)

PART III The impact of the 11 September attacks

217

(24)

12 America attempts to remake the Middle East

219

(11)

Conclusion: the Middle East at the beginning of the twenty-first century

230

(11)

Notes

241

(25)

Select bibliography

266

(6)

Index

272

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State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East

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