State, power and politics in the making of the modern Middle East / Roger Owen.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Owen, Roger, 1935-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvi, 279 p.
• Other title: The end of empires : the emergence of the modern Middle Eastern states --; The growth of state power in the Arab world : the single-party regimes --; The growth of state power in the Arab world under family rule, and the Libyan alternative --; Arab nationalism, Arab unity and the practice of intra-Arab state relations --; State and politics in Israel, Iran and Turkey from the Second World War --; The remaking of the Middle Eastern political environment between the two Gulf wars --; The politics of economic restructuring --; Parties, elections and the vexed question of democracy in the Arab world --; The politics of religious revival --; The military in and out of politics --; Some important non-state actors --; America attempts to remake the Middle East --; The Middle East at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-271) and index.
• ISBN: 0415297133 (hardback); 0415297141 (pbk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Roger Owen.