Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East

In this new edition of Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East, the events and episodes that have unfolded recently in the Middle East (ME) are reorganized and reinterpreted in a historical and thematic way. The book therefore helps in understanding the changing socio-political dynamics of the region. Further, it offers the readers a comprehensive and compact study of a region which continues to be in a ‘constant-complex’ flux. With great precision, the authors have endeavoured to analyse the interplay between states, governments and their societies and the politics of the region historically and comparatively. In the introduction, the authors explore the pattern of continuity and change in the politics of ME especially in the context of Islam as a religious, cultural and political force as well as in the context of colonialism.