Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia

• Contents:1 Fault lines in Middle East politics 1Shahram Akbarzadeh2 Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa 6Roel Meijer3 Political Islam: a 40-year retrospective 25Nader Hashemi4 The power and limits of ideology in the Middle East 43Mohammed M. Hafez5 Political parties in the Middle East: the unsolved problem of collective action 59Marina Ottaway6 Far-right populists in power and transnational repression of dissidents 73Ihsan Yilmaz7 Varieties of feminisms in the Middle East and North Africa 89Valentine M. Moghadam8 The political system in Iran: theocratic electoral authoritarianism 110Shahram Akbarzadeh and Arif Saba9 Where is Iranian politics? Between state and nation, inside and outsidethe polity 126Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany10 Saudi Arabia’s centralized political structure: prospects and challenges 144Eman Alhussein11 Bourdieu’s social theory and the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran 158Simon Mabon12 External powers in the Middle East: views from within the region 174Guy Burton13 US foreign policy toward the Middle East 190Mahmood Monshipouri and Manochehr Dorraj14 China’s uneasy balancing in the Persian Gulf 209Jonathan Fulton15 A new regional fault line: the Middle East divided in search ofa post-revolutionary order 225Andreas Krieg16 The political economies of the Arab Gulf states: policies for change,frameworks for stasis 239Matthew Gray17 Lebanon as the politics of permanent crisis 254Filippo Dionigi18 “People, army, resistance”: the end of Hizbullah’s Legacy 272Mariam Farida19 Palestine and international intervention 293Dana El Kurd20 Captured Politics under Colonial Dominance: The case of Palestine 308Basem Ezbidi21 International talks in the Syrian conflict: a continuation of war by other means? 333Bente Scheller22 Globalized finance capital, hegemony and the Middle East: through thelens of radical political economy 350Raymond Hinnebusch23 Environmental security in the Middle East and North Africa:interpretations and patterns of policy and activism 367Giulia CiminiIndex

‘Leading specialists and young scholars address in this useful Handbook key aspects of Middle East politics as they play out in Arab countries, Iran and Turkey. The authors engage with both conceptual and topical issues, ranging from the region’s restrictive practice of citizenship, to its ideological engagements, to contemporary contests for power involving regional as well as external actors. The volume is suitable for specialists and for those seeking a sophisticated introduction to the politics of the region.’

Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia

• Contents:1 Fault lines in Middle East politics 1Shahram Akbarzadeh2 Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa 6Roel Meijer3 Political Islam: a 40-year retrospective 25Nader Hashemi4 The power and limits of ideology in the Middle East 43Mohammed M. Hafez5 Political parties in the Middle East: the unsolved problem of collective action 59Marina Ottaway6 Far-right populists in power and transnational repression of dissidents 73Ihsan Yilmaz7 Varieties of feminisms in the Middle East and North Africa 89Valentine M. Moghadam8 The political system in Iran: theocratic electoral authoritarianism 110Shahram Akbarzadeh and Arif Saba9 Where is Iranian politics? Between state and nation, inside and outsidethe polity 126Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany10 Saudi Arabia’s centralized political structure: prospects and challenges 144Eman Alhussein11 Bourdieu’s social theory and the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran 158Simon Mabon12 External powers in the Middle East: views from within the region 174Guy Burton13 US foreign policy toward the Middle East 190Mahmood Monshipouri and Manochehr Dorraj14 China’s uneasy balancing in the Persian Gulf 209Jonathan Fulton15 A new regional fault line: the Middle East divided in search ofa post-revolutionary order 225Andreas Krieg16 The political economies of the Arab Gulf states: policies for change,frameworks for stasis 239Matthew Gray17 Lebanon as the politics of permanent crisis 254Filippo Dionigi18 “People, army, resistance”: the end of Hizbullah’s Legacy 272Mariam Farida19 Palestine and international intervention 293Dana El Kurd20 Captured Politics under Colonial Dominance: The case of Palestine 308Basem Ezbidi21 International talks in the Syrian conflict: a continuation of war by other means? 333Bente Scheller22 Globalized finance capital, hegemony and the Middle East: through thelens of radical political economy 350Raymond Hinnebusch23 Environmental security in the Middle East and North Africa:interpretations and patterns of policy and activism 367Giulia CiminiIndex

‘Leading specialists and young scholars address in this useful Handbook key aspects of Middle East politics as they play out in Arab countries, Iran and Turkey. The authors engage with both conceptual and topical issues, ranging from the region’s restrictive practice of citizenship, to its ideological engagements, to contemporary contests for power involving regional as well as external actors. The volume is suitable for specialists and for those seeking a sophisticated introduction to the politics of the region.’

Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia

• Contents:1 Fault lines in Middle East politics 1Shahram Akbarzadeh2 Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa 6Roel Meijer3 Political Islam: a 40-year retrospective 25Nader Hashemi4 The power and limits of ideology in the Middle East 43Mohammed M. Hafez5 Political parties in the Middle East: the unsolved problem of collective action 59Marina Ottaway6 Far-right populists in power and transnational repression of dissidents 73Ihsan Yilmaz7 Varieties of feminisms in the Middle East and North Africa 89Valentine M. Moghadam8 The political system in Iran: theocratic electoral authoritarianism 110Shahram Akbarzadeh and Arif Saba9 Where is Iranian politics? Between state and nation, inside and outsidethe polity 126Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany10 Saudi Arabia’s centralized political structure: prospects and challenges 144Eman Alhussein11 Bourdieu’s social theory and the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran 158Simon Mabon12 External powers in the Middle East: views from within the region 174Guy Burton13 US foreign policy toward the Middle East 190Mahmood Monshipouri and Manochehr Dorraj14 China’s uneasy balancing in the Persian Gulf 209Jonathan Fulton15 A new regional fault line: the Middle East divided in search ofa post-revolutionary order 225Andreas Krieg16 The political economies of the Arab Gulf states: policies for change,frameworks for stasis 239Matthew Gray17 Lebanon as the politics of permanent crisis 254Filippo Dionigi18 “People, army, resistance”: the end of Hizbullah’s Legacy 272Mariam Farida19 Palestine and international intervention 293Dana El Kurd20 Captured Politics under Colonial Dominance: The case of Palestine 308Basem Ezbidi21 International talks in the Syrian conflict: a continuation of war by other means? 333Bente Scheller22 Globalized finance capital, hegemony and the Middle East: through thelens of radical political economy 350Raymond Hinnebusch23 Environmental security in the Middle East and North Africa:interpretations and patterns of policy and activism 367Giulia CiminiIndex

‘Leading specialists and young scholars address in this useful Handbook key aspects of Middle East politics as they play out in Arab countries, Iran and Turkey. The authors engage with both conceptual and topical issues, ranging from the region’s restrictive practice of citizenship, to its ideological engagements, to contemporary contests for power involving regional as well as external actors. The volume is suitable for specialists and for those seeking a sophisticated introduction to the politics of the region.’