Books Reviewed

The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities

The book is supportive of the claim that any deviation from the operating principles of realism will result in failure. The book 'The Great Delusion:...

How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Egypt

Omar Ashour seeks to explain the puzzle of how the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (known as ISIS or DAESH) was able to...

Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society

The Research Handbook on Islamic Law and Society edited by Nadirsyah Hosen provides an examination of the role of Islamic law as it applies...

Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy

Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy is an eye-opening and thought-provoking contribution, one that unequivocally argues that democracy is almost always created by...

Memory, Identity, and Nationalism in European Regions

This book is a fundamental intellectual resource that explores patterns of interactions between politics and managed historical memory and the discourse of ethnicity in...

After the Arab Uprisings: Between Democratization, Counter-revolution and State Failure

The revolutions, political uprising and widespread protests that took place in 2010 and 2011, that collectively became known as the Arab Spring, passed through...

We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria

In 2011, thousands of Syrians took to the streets in a wave of protests, called for basic freedoms and human rights for their country....

Mapping the Middle East

Mapping the Middle East provides a sensible, accessible and nuanced contextual analysis of the map of the Middle East since the early Islamic period...

Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes

Communism’s Shadow is a remarkable book, one that draws upon a wealth of data and sophisticated modelling and analytical approaches to answer a crucial...

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