Gregory Gause’s The International Relations of the Persian Gulf provides an excellent overview of its subject over the past 40 years since the British withdrawal, while providing both interesting unifying themes and well-supported arguments about several controversial issues. Gause views the Gulf states bordering the Gulf as forming a “regional security complex,” meaning that [...]
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Those interested in a brief (109-page) overview of the historical and political context for Iran’s June 2009 election controversy should check out Ali Ansari’s most recent book, Crisis of Authority: Iran’s 2009 Presidential Election. In this Chatham House publication, Ansari analyzes the competition between principlists and reformists before and after the election as the [...] Matthew Duss compares the conflict which engulfed Iraq after the U.S. invasion to the creation of the Palestinian refugee crisis: “But the point is this: between 2003 and 2009, in addition to the more than 100,000 Iraqis killed and many more wounded and maimed, more than 4.5 million Iraqis were expelled and displaced amid [...] A couple of years ago, Mark LeVine, the occasionally blogging historian of the modern Middle East, published his latest book Heavy Metal Islam: Rock Religion and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam, about the important heavy metal scene in the Middle East and related areas, a work which expanded on one of the [...] Lately I’ve been doing a chapter-by-chapter review of Juan Cole’s Engaging the Muslim World. Those chapter reviews are linked below for convenience, but first, I want to make a few comments about the book as a whole. Contrary to what critics, and not a few fans, of his blog might think, this is not [...] The sixth and last chapter of Juan Cole’s Engaging the Muslim World examines the United States’s relationship with Iran. The first part of the chapter is a look at Iran’s current political system, noting the ways in which anti-Iranian sentiments and fears are whipped up through distortions of evidence and even bizarre fantasies, such [...] My project to review Juan Cole’s Engaging the Muslim World chapter by chapter is dragging on longer than I thought it would, but I hate leaving things unfinished, and so I soldier on. The fifth chapter, “Pakistan and Afghanistan: Beyond the Taliban,” is the one most outside of my expertise, for while I did [...] |
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