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Latin America’s Pendular Politics
This book explores pendular politics in Latin America, focusing on electoral cycles with a pattern of similar results. Latin America has been neoliberal in the 1990s, leftist during the 2000s, then conservative in 2016-2018 and progressist again since 2018. The reference to a right/left/right/left sequence over a period of thirty years undoubtedly accounts for a singular pendulum pattern yet proves to be excessively simplistic. The right/left dichotomy hides fractures and nuances that characterize each political camp. This book seeks to explain why some elections result in alternations and others do not. Based on an innovative theoretical framework and a unique collection of case studies, the book offers a rich understanding of Latin America’s contemporary political evolutions. Voters are getting accustomed to punishing incumbents for not delivering in time of crises, resulting in frequent alternations. It might be good for democracy, not so much for governability.
Atlas of the Near East
The Atlas of the Near East offers an in-depth examination of the economic, social, and demographic dynamics of the Arab Near East, defined here as Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine, in the period from 1918 to 2010. It discusses the central problem of aridity, the effects of foreign domination, Arab nationalism, Baʿathism, and communitarianism. It addresses the makeup of the population, the region’s development, economic issues, cities, and urban areas. It assesses the partition of Palestine and the geography of the Occupied Territories, and concludes with a chapter on the geopolitics of the Near East. With numerous maps, charts, and data published for the first time, it is key to a comprehensive understanding of the region.
Islamism in the Shadow of Al-Qaeda
From reviews of the original French edition: "Burgat's book delivers the keys to the writings of Azzam, Zawahiri, and bin Laden." --Le Monde Diplomatique "Unlike his contemporaries, Burgat doesn't give in to the media-talk that surrounds us. . . . With his immense historic and sociological background, he offers us a complete, panoramic view of that Arabic Other. . . . Few know the Arab Muslim world better than Burgat." --Politis A renowned authority on Islamic movements, François Burgat lived for eighteen years on the Arabian Peninsula, including his time as director of the French Center for Archaeology and Social Sciences at Yemen. He also dedicated many months to fieldwork in North Africa...
A Wall in Palestine
The West Bank Barrier is expected to be completed in 2010. Declared illegal by the United Nations International Court of Justice, this network of concrete walls, trenches, and barbed-wire fences could permanently redraw one of the most disputed property lines in the Middle East--the Green Line that separates Israel and the West Bank. To Israel the "security fence" is intended to keep Palestinian terrorists from entering its territory. But to Palestinians the "apartheid wall" that sliced through orchards and houses, and cuts off family members from one another, is a land grab. In this comprehensive book, Backmann not only addresses the barrier's impact on ordinary citizens, but how it will sh...
Syria, the Strength of an Idea
Explains the construction of the Syrian state over the last 100 years and decodes the events of the current crisis.
Au nom de l'islam
Fort de témoignages recueillis pendant 3 ans en Iran, en Arabie Saoudite et en Egypte auprès d'anonymes, intellectuels, étudiants, imans, etc, et de l'analyse d'observateurs, Ben Salama, journaliste, donne la parole aux hommes et femmes qui luttent pour séparer l'islam de son instrumentalisation politique.
Dünya Siyasetinde Afrika 1
NEDEN DÜNYA SİYASETİNDE AFRİKA? Neden “Dünya Siyasetinde Afrika”? Örneğin The Economist dergisi 2000'de “The hopeless continent” (ümitsiz kıta) olarak attığı başlığını, 2011'de “Africa rising” (Afrika yükseliyor) olarak güncelliyor; kıtanın nüfusu bir milyarı geçiyor ve artık dünyada gelişen ilk 10 ekonomiden yedisi Afrikalı bir devlete ait oluyor. Dünyada Afrika çalışmalarının sayıları artmakta ve çok ciddi bir literatür oluşmaktadır. Sadece Fransız, İngiliz veya diğer Avrupalı (geçmişte sömürge sahibi devletlerden) değil, Çinli, Hindistanlı, ABD'li, Brezilyalı vb., Afrika konusuna ehemmiyet veren bilim insanları çoğalmaktad...
Algérie
En 1962, les fées ont été particulièrement nombreuses à se presser autour de l'Algérie. L'« exemplarité » de la lutte de libération nationale, longue et violente, ravissait ceux qui ne voient de progrès humain que dans l'action de l'« accoucheuse de l'histoire » et en attendent la destruction du vieux monde...
