Chad C. Serena recently published It Takes More than a Network: The Iraqi Insurgency and Organizational Adaptation (Stanford University Press). In It…
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Matthiesen: Sectarian Gulf
For a concise overview of the Arab Uprisings in the Persian Gulf countries read Toby Matthiesen’s Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab…
Continue ReadingMigdal: Shifting Sands
Joel S. Migdal recently published Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East (Columbia University Press). In Shifting Sands, Migdal traces the…
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In fall 2013, Marc Lynch published “A Syria Reading list” to aid those seeking to understand the conflict in Syria at a…
Continue ReadingAl-Rasheed: A Most Masculine State
POMEPS has had the pleasure of hosting numerous book launches with top-notch scholars in the field of political science since…
Continue ReadingDiamond and Plattner: Democratization and Authoritarianism
The Johns Hopkins University Press has recently released Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World, edited by Larry Diamond and…
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Gana: The Making of the Tunisian Revolution
The Making of the Tunisian Revolution: Contexts, Architects, Prospects (Edinburgh University Press), edited by Nouri Gana, is a multidisciplinary collection…
Continue ReadingCammett: Compassionate Communalism and Non-state Social Welfare
POMEPS Steering Committee member Melani Cammett has just published Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon and The Politics of Non-state Social Welfare, both…
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