PSCI 325 Conflict in the Middle East
Alternative Reading List
Andersen, Roy R., Robert
F. Seibert, and Jon G. Wagner. Politics and Change
in the Middle East: Sources of Conflict and Accommodation. 6th ed.
Engelwood Cliffs N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000.
Bickerton, Ian J., and
Carla L. Klausner. A
Concise History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. 3rd ed.
New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1998.
Bill, James, and Robert
Springborg. Politics
in the Middle East. 5th ed. New York:
Addison Wesley Longman, 2000.
Cobban, Helena. The Palestinian Liberation
Organization: People, Power, and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1984.
Cohen, Michael J. The
Origins and Evolution of the Arab-Zionist Conflict. Berkeley/ Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 1987.
Cooley, John K. Unholy
Wars. London/Sterling,
Virginia: Pluto Press, 1999.
Du Pasquier, Roger. Unveiling
Islam. Cambridge (UK): Islamic Texts Society, 1994.
Eaton, Gai. Islam
and the Destiny of Man. Cambridge (UK): Islamic Texts Society, 1994.
El-Baz, Farouk, and R. M. Makharita, eds. The Gulf War and the Environment.
Switzerland: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1994.
Elmusa, Sharif S. Negotiating Water: Israel
and the Palestinians. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestinian Studies,
1996.
Elon, Amos. The Israelis: Founders and Sons.
New York: Penguin Books, 1981.
Esposito, John L. The Islamic Threat: Myth or
Reality? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. (Revised
edition.)
Esposito, John L., and
John O. Voll. Islam
and Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Fromkin, David. A Peace to
End All Peace. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 2001.
Guazzone, Laura, ed. The
Middle East in Global Change: The Politics and Economics of Interdependence Versus Fragmentation. New York: St. Martin's Press,
1997.
Hourani, Albert, Philip S. Khoury, and Mary C. Wilson,
eds. The Modern Middle East. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1993.
Hunter, F. Robert. The Palestinian Uprising:
A War by Other Means Revised and Expanded. Los Angeles: University of
California Press, 1993.
Kandiyoti, Deniz, ed. Women,
Islam & the State. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1991.
Kegley, Charles W. Jr.,
and Gregory Raymond. How Nations Make
Peace. New York: St. Martin's / Worth, 1999.
Khoury, Philip S., and
Joseph Kostiner, eds. Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.
Lake, Anthony. After the Wars: Reconstruction in Afghanistan, Indochina,
Central America, Southern Africa, and the Horn of Africa. New Brunswick
(US), Oxford (UK): Transaction Publishers, 1990.
Lewis, Bernard. Islam and
the West. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Lowi, Miriam R. Water and Power: The Politics
of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin. Cambridge G.B.: Cambridge
University Press, 1995.
Marsot, Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid. A
Short History of Modern Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1985.
Owen, Roger. State, Power,
and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East. 2nd ed.
New York: Routledge, 2000.
Said, Edward W. The Question of Palestine. New
York: Vintage Books, 1992.
Sharabi, Hisham. Neopatriarchy: A Theory
of Distorted Change in Arab Society. New York: Oxford University Press,
1988.
Smith, Charles D. Palestine
and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Boston: Bedford/ St.
Martin's Press, 2001.
Usher, Graham. Palestine in Crisis: The
Struggle for Peace and Political Independence after Oslo. London: Pluto
Press, 1995.
Vandewalle, Dirk, ed. North Africa:
Development and Reform in a Changing Global Economy. New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1996.
Vandewalle, Dirk, ed. Qadhafi's Libya 1969 to
1944. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Online Sources
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (2006). "Negotiating
Europe: the politics of religion and the prospects for Turkish accession."Review of International Studies, 32(3), 401.
Al-Qattan, N. (1999). "Dhimmis in the Muslim Court: Legal Autonomy
and Religious Discrimination." International Journal of
Middle East Studies 31(3): 429-444.
Kuran, T. (2004). "Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical
Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation." The
Journal of Economic Perspectives 18(3): 71-90.
Keddie, N. R. (1984). "Material Culture and Geography: Toward a Holistic Comparative
History of the Middle East." Comparative Studies in
Society and History 26(4): 709-735.
“Ottoman Empire.” The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001–04.
www.bartleby.com/65/. August 7, 2007.
Selby, J.
(2005). "The Geopolitics of Water in the Middle East: fantasies and
realities." Third World Quarterly 26(2): 329-349.
(2007).
"Islam's Divide--and Us."
Commentary 124(1): 41-45.
Field, J. A.,
Jr. (1972). "Trade, Skills, and Sympathy: The First Century and a Half of
Commerce with the near East." Annals of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science 401: 1-14.
· Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (2006). "Negotiating Europe: the politics of religion and the prospects for
Turkish accession." Review of International
Studies, 32(3), 401.
·
· Al-Qattan, N. (1999). "Dhimmis in the Muslim Court:
Legal Autonomy and Religious Discrimination."
International Journal of Middle East Studies 31(3): 429-444.
Examines the legal status of non-Muslims as indicated in the rulings of sharia
courts in Damascus in the 18th and 19th centuries.
·
· Kuran, T. (2004). "Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical
Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation." The
Journal of Economic Perspectives 18(3): 71-90.
·
· Keddie, N. R. (1984). "Material Culture and Geography: Toward a Holistic Comparative
History of the Middle East." Comparative Studies in
Society and History 26(4): 709-735. Material culture here encompasses both technology and objects produced or adapted, often using
technology, for human use. Geography is interpreted broadly to include changes
over time in landscape and climate, due both to natural factors and to changes
in human use.
· “Ottoman Empire.” The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001–04. www.bartleby.com/65/.
August 7, 2007.
·
· Selby, J.
(2005). "The Geopolitics of Water in the Middle East: fantasies and
realities." Third World Quarterly 26(2): 329-349.
Most expert and public discourse on Middle Eastern water politics holds that
water scarcities are of great, if often under-recognised,
geopolitical importance. Contends that water problems should neither be
understood in naturalistic nor in liberal -- technical terms, but instead as
questions of political economy.
·
· (2007).
"Islam's Divide--and Us."
Commentary 124(1): 41-45.
Addresses the rising division between Shiites and Sunnis within the Islamic
community.
·
· Field, J. A.,
Jr. (1972). "Trade, Skills, and Sympathy: The First Century and a Half of
Commerce with the near East." Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science 401: 1-14.
Discusses American and Ottoman Empire agreements for trade beginning in the
1800's.
·
· Al-Qattan, N. (1999). "Dhimmis
in the Muslim Court: Legal Autonomy and Religious Discrimination."
International Journal of Middle East Studies 31(3): 429-444. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8059?opendocument
Examines the legal status of non-Muslims as indicated in the rulings of sharia
courts in Damascus in the 18th and 19th centuries.
· Acker, V. G. (2004).
"RELIGION AMONG THE KURDS: INTERNAL TOLERANCE, EXTERNAL CONFLICT."
Kennedy School Review 5: 99-109. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8060?opendocument
Examines the impact of the unique religious composition of Kurdistan on Kurdish
political identity.
· Bush, R.
(2004). "Poverty and Neo-Liberal Bias in the Middle East and North
Africa." Development & Change 35(4): 673-695. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8064?opendocument
Examines the definition of poverty and the evidential base for the claims that
the region of the Middle East and North Africa(MENA)
has historically low levels of poverty and relatively good levels of income
distribution.
·
· Yavuz, M. H. and M. G. Michael (2001). "The Kurdish
nation." Current History 100(642): 33. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8065?opendocument
·
· Huneidi, S. (1998). "Was Balfour Policy Reversible? The
Colonial Office and Palestine, 1921-23." Journal of Palestine Studies
27(2): 23-41. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8069?opendocument
·
· Yaqub, S. (2006). "The United States and the
Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947 to the Present." OAH Magazine of History
20(3): 13-17. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8073?opendocument
Focuses on the role of the U.S. in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
·
· Collins-Kreiner, N., Y. Mansfeld, et al.
(2006). "The reflection of a political conflict in mapping: The case of
Israel's borders and frontiers." Middle Eastern Studies 42(3):
381-408. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8074?opendocument
Cites a study which explores the mapping of boarders in Israel and Palestine.
·
· Quandt, W. B. (1986). "Camp David and Peacemaking in the
Middle East." Political Science Quarterly 101(3): 357. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8085?opendocument
Focuses on the Camp David Accords and peacemaking between Egypt and Israel.
Lapidus, I. M.
(1992). "The Golden Age: The Political Concepts of Islam."
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 524: 13-25.
http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8062?opendocument
Examines the present role of Islam in Middle Eastern
politics as not a continuation but a reconstruction of the historical
paradigms.
·
· Allman, J.
(1980). "The Demographic Transition in the Middle East and North Africa."
International Journal of Middle East Studies 12(3): 277-301.
http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8070?opendocument
Examines evidence of demographic transition in the Middle East and North
Africa.
·
· Doran, M.
(2002). "The Pragmatic Fanaticism of al Qaeda: An Anatomy of Extremism
in Middle Eastern Politics." Political Science Quarterly 117(2): 177.
http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8071?opendocument
Examines the central doctrines of Islamic extremism.
Relationship between al Qaeda's zealotry and its pragmatism; Use of the
principle of realpolitik; Consequences of the complexity of the balance of
power in the Middle.
·
· Perry, G. E.
(1992). "Democracy and human rights in the shadow of the west."
Arab Studies Quarterly 14(4): 1.
· http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8079?opendocument
· Looks at how
the Western world had disregarded principles of democracy and human rights in
Arab countries.
·
· Lapidus, I. M. (1992). "The Golden Age: The Political
Concepts of Islam." Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science 524: 13-25.
http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8081?opendocument
Discusses the present role of Islam in Middle Eastern
politics as not a continuation but a reconstruction of the historical paradigms.
·
· Criss, N. B. (2002). "A Short History of
Anti-Americanism and Terrorism: The Turkish Case." Journal of American
History 89(2): 472-484.
http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8082?opendocument
Discusses the causes of anti-Americanism and
terrorism.
·
· (2007).
"Islam's Divide--and Us." Commentary 124(1): 41-45.
http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8084?opendocument
Addresses the rising division between Shiites and
Sunnis within the Islamic community.
· Yacobi, H. and R. Shechter (2005).
"Rethinking cities in the Middle East: political economy, planning, and
the lived space." Journal of Architecture 10(5): 499-515. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8068?opendocument Urbanisation is an economic, political, and socio-cultural
complexity, and so is its interaction with cityscapes. This review article is
the result of a dialogue between an architect and an economic historian in
response to the foregoing.
·
·
Land, T. (2006). "It's a mad MAD world." Middle East(373):
18-22. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8072?opendocument
Focuses on the mad rush for nuclear power in the Middle East countries.
·
· (2007).
"OIL SHOCKS: THREE DECADES OF INSTABILITY, 1970-2003." MEED:
Middle East Economic Digest 51: 14-14. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8080?opendocument Lists
a chronology of significant events that happened in the Middle East oil
industry in 1970 to 2003.
·
·
Appleby, R. S. (2002). "History in the
Fundamentalist Imagination." Journal of American History 89(2):
498-511. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8083?opendocument Examines the
fundamentalist reconstructions of the past as a way of understanding the
distinctive world views among Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
·
·
(2007). "Islam's Divide--and Us."
Commentary 124(1): 41-45. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8084?opendocument Addresses
the rising division between Shiites and Sunnis within the Islamic community.
·
· Quandt, W. B. (1986). "Camp David and Peacemaking in the
Middle East." Political Science Quarterly 101(3): 357. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8085?opendocument Focuses on
the Camp David Accords and peacemaking between Egypt and Israel.
·
·
Thompson, E. (2003). "PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN
MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN'S HISTORY." Journal of Women's History 15(1): 52.
http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8087?opendocument Examines the
uses of the terms public and private in historical studies of gender boundaries
especially women in the Middle East.
·
·
Susan, W. (2004). "Universal Human Rights:
The Contribution of Muslim States." Human Rights Quarterly 26(4): 799.
http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8088?opendocument Discusses
that it is often supposed that international human rights standards were
negotiated without active participation by Middle Eastern and Muslim states.
That was not the case.
·
·
Vesely, M. (2004).
"Tool or weapon?" Middle East(348):
44-45. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8089?opendocument The issue,
human rights advocates claim, is whether the Caterpillar company places any
restrictions on the use of its equipment to prevent the Palestinian people's
right to safety and property being violated
·
·
Esfandiari, H. (2004). The
Woman Question. Wilson Quarterly, Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars. 28: 56-63. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8090?opendocument Deals with
the struggles of women towards democratic rights in the Middle East region.
·
·
(2006). Time for the renaissance of medicine in
the Middle East. Lancet: 959-959. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8091?opendocument Looks at the
quality of medical care in Middle Eastern countries and the origins of the
medical profession.
·
·
Akala, F. A. and
S. El-Saharty (2006). "Public-health
challenges in the Middle East and North Africa." Lancet 367(9515):
961-964. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8092?opendocument Reports on
the reduction of poverty and improvements in public health, health services
delivery, and socioeconomic development in the Middle East and North Africa
(MENA) region.
Al-Qattan, N. (1999). "Dhimmis
in the Muslim Court: Legal Autonomy and Religious Discrimination."
International Journal of Middle East Studies 31(3): 429-444. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8059?opendocument
Acker, V. G.
(2004). "RELIGION AMONG THE KURDS: INTERNAL TOLERANCE, EXTERNAL
CONFLICT." Kennedy School Review 5: 99-109. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8060?opendocument
Bush, R.
(2004). "Poverty and Neo-Liberal Bias in the Middle
East and North Africa." Development & Change 35(4):
673-695. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8064?opendocument
Yavuz, M. H. and
M. G. Michael (2001). "The Kurdish nation."
Current History 100(642): 33. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8065?opendocument
Huneidi, S. (1998). "Was
Balfour Policy Reversible? The Colonial Office and Palestine, 1921-23."
Journal of Palestine Studies 27(2): 23-41. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8069?opendocument
Yaqub, S. (2006). "The United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947 to
the Present." OAH Magazine of History 20(3): 13-17. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8073?opendocument
Collins-Kreiner, N., Y. Mansfeld,
et al. (2006). "The reflection of a political conflict in
mapping: The case of Israel's borders and frontiers." Middle Eastern
Studies 42(3): 381-408. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8074?opendocument
Quandt, W. B. (1986). "Camp David and
Peacemaking in the Middle East." Political Science Quarterly
101(3): 357. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8085?opendocument
Lapidus, I. M.
(1992). "The Golden Age: The Political Concepts of Islam."
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 524: 13-25. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8062?opendocument
Allman, J.
(1980). "The Demographic Transition in the Middle
East and North Africa." International Journal of Middle East
Studies 12(3): 277-301.
http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8070?opendocument
Doran, M. (2002). "The Pragmatic Fanaticism of al Qaeda: An
Anatomy of Extremism in Middle Eastern Politics." Political Science
Quarterly 117(2): 177. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8071?opendocument
Perry, G. E.
(1992). "Democracy and human rights in the shadow of
the west." Arab Studies Quarterly 14(4): 1.
http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8079?opendocument
Lapidus, I. M.
(1992). "The Golden Age: The Political Concepts of Islam."
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 524: 13-25. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8081?opendocument
Discusses the present role of Islam in Middle Eastern politics as not a
continuation but a reconstruction of the historical paradigms.
Criss, N. B. (2002). "A Short History of
Anti-Americanism and Terrorism: The Turkish Case." Journal of American
History 89(2): 472-484.
http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8082?opendocument
(2007). "Islam's Divide--and Us." Commentary
124(1): 41-45.
http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8084?opendocument
Addresses the rising division between Shiites and Sunnis within the
Islamic community.
Land, T.
(2006). "It's a mad MAD world."
Middle East (373): 18-22. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8072?opendocument Focuses on
the mad rush for nuclear power in the Middle East countries.
Appleby, R.
S. (2002). "History in the Fundamentalist Imagination."
Journal of American History 89(2): 498-511. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8083?opendocument.
(2007). "Islam's Divide--and Us." Commentary
124(1): 41-45. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8084?opendocument Addresses
the rising division between Shiites and Sunnis within the Islamic community.
Quandt, W. B. (1986). "Camp David and
Peacemaking in the Middle East." Political Science Quarterly
101(3): 357. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8085?opendocument
Thompson, E. (2003). "PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IN
MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN'S HISTORY." Journal of Women's History
15(1): 52. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8087?opendocument
Susan, W. (2004). "Universal
Human Rights: The Contribution of Muslim States." Human Rights
Quarterly 26(4): 799. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8088?opendocument
Vesely, M. (2004). "Tool or weapon?"
Middle East(348): 44-45. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8089?opendocument
Esfandiari, H. (2004). The
Woman Question. Wilson Quarterly, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars. 28: 56-63. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8090?opendocument
Akala, F. A. and S. El-Saharty (2006). "Public-health
challenges in the Middle East and North Africa." Lancet 367(9515):
961-964. http://empire1.esc.edu/library/intresourcesv2.nsf/bykeyredirect/8092?opendocument.