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Democracy and Youth in the Middle East
Islam, Tribalism and the Rentier State in Oman
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
The leaders of the oil-rich rentier states of the Middle East, and in particular in the Gulf, have hitherto often predicated their legitimacy on a tacit social contract with their (much poorer) populations. This social contract consists of little or no direct taxation, with some sort of subsidised...
Architecture and the Turkish City
An Urban History of Istanbul since the Ottomans
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and this is especially the case in the modern Turkish Republic. By exploring Istanbul's modern architectural and urban history, Murat Gül highlights the dynamics of political and social...
by Naomi Sakr
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Egypt's revolutionary uprising in 2011 raised important questions about the kind of journalism that would be viable in the country's changing political dynamics. Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of action against...
The UAE
Geopolitics, Modernity and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
The seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates were little known until the spectacular success of Dubai. The branding of the city not only raised awareness of Dubai, and brought Emiratis one of the highest standards of living in the world, it also spread positive representations of the UAE...
Britain and the Defeated French
From Occupation to Liberation, 1940-1944
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The four years between the military defeat of France by Nazi Germany and D-Day were vital, dramatic and eventful years in Anglo-French relations. These years saw the first armed clashes between France and Britain since the Napoleonic Wars, including the infamous Royal Navy attack on the French fleet...
A New Humanism
The University Addresses of Daisaku Ikeda
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
'The natural sympathy and understanding of people everywheremust be the soil in which the new humanism can thrive.'
For Daisaku Ikeda, whose words these are, education has long been one of the fundamental priorities of his work and teaching. His emphasis on the intellectual legacy bequeathed...
Weak States, Strong Societies
Power and Authority in the New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the previously well-established organisation of world politics has been thrown into disarray. While during the Cold War, the bipolarity of the world gave other powers a defined structure within which to vie for power, influence...
Destruction Rites
Ephemerality and Demolition in Postwar Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
In the early sixties, crowds gathered to watch rites of destruction – from the demolition derby where makeshift cars crashed into each other for sport, to concerts where musicians destroyed their instruments, to performances of self-destructing machines staged by contemporary artists. Destruction,...
Wealth in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans
A Socio-Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Wealth in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans demonstrates the economic and social transformations wrought by wars, state centralization, European expansion and the gradual Ottoman withdrawal from the Balkans. As a new middle class emerged, and the power of religion faded, Ottoman and post-Ottoman...
Russian-Turkmen Encounters
The Caspian Frontier before the Great Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
In the mid-eighteenth century the Russian tsar sent two expeditions across the Caspian Sea in response to an extraordinary plea for assistance from the recently subjugated Kalmyk Khan. The official journals of these expeditions, here translated into English for the first time, record the encounters...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
The Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic West Asia. As this new volume in The Idea of Iran series suggests, sudden conquest from the east was preceded by events closer to home which laid the groundwork...
Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics
The Legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry in 1766, he outlined the strengths and weaknesses of each art. Painting was assigned to the realm of space; poetry to the realm of time. Space and Time in Artistic Practice...
Frontline Turkey
The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on their Syrian border – a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades. In 2011 Erdogan promised to make a deal with...
Moral Lessons of the Twentieth Century
Gorbachev and Ikeda on Buddhism and Communism
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
Mikhail Gorbachev and Daisaku Ikeda are contemporaries raised in different cultures: Gorbachev is a statesman whose origins are the Marx-inspired world of Communism while Ikeda is Buddhist inspired by the thirteenth-century Japanese sage, Nichiren. Moral Lessons of the Twentieth Century emerges from...