Türkiye / Syria: The Kurdish Question in Regional Politics
The Kurdish question is not one movement; it is a set of different state and security problems across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
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Modernization and Authoritarianism in the Gulf States
Gulf modernization is easier to read when state rents, political constraints, migrant labor, and soft-power strategy are treated together.
Israel / Palestine: Civilian Perspectives on the Conflict
A civilian-perspective reading of the Israel-Palestine conflict: fear, loss, memory, and daily life, separated by social position.
Historical Formation and Current Fault Lines of Major Middle Eastern Countries
A comparative look at major Middle Eastern countries through state formation, regime type, social cleavages, and regional spillovers.
Iran: History of civil repression and protest movements by the Iranian regime
This book historicalizes the oppression of civilians in post-revolutionary Iran as a series of events involving women's rights, speech control, security services, executions, minorities, and protest movements.
Iran: Post-Revolutionary Power Structure and Governing Institutions
The power structure of post-revolutionary Iran is illustrated from the perspective of the relationship between the supreme leader, the Assembly of Experts, the Guardian Council, the judiciary, the Revolutionary Guards, and the electoral system.