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  • The End of Strategic Stability?

    Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries

    by Lawrence Rubin, Adam N. Stulberg, Evan Montgomery, Andrey Pavlov, Anastasia Malygina, Sadia Tasleem, Emily B. Landau, Annie Tracy Samuel, Rajesh Basrur0, Dmitry Adamsky1, Tong Zhao2, Happymon Jacob3, Ilai Saltzman4, Ala' Alrababa'h5, Jeffrey Knopf6, Matthew Kroenig7, Adam Mount8 ...
    During the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would compete for global influence but would be deterred from using nuclear weapons. In actuality, both sides understood strategic stability and deterrence quite differently. Today’s international system is further complicated by more nuclear powers, regional rivalries ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terrorist Rehabilitation and Counter-Radicalisation

    New Approaches to Counter-terrorism

    Edited by Lawrence Rubin, Rohan Gunaratna, Jolene Jerard ...
    Series series Political Violence
    This book seeks to explore the new frontiers in counter-terrorism research, analyses and practice, focusing on the imperative to rehabilitate terrorists.The post-9/11 world is in a very early stage of global rehabilitation both of terrorists and criminals. Nonetheless, some correctional rehabilitation programs have led convicted and suspected terrorists to express remorse, repent, and recant their ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Starship Therapise

    Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life

    by Larisa A. Garski LMFT, Justine Mastin LMFT ...
    Harnessing the power of fandom--from Game of Thrones to The Legend of Zelda--to conquer anxiety, heal from depression, and reclaim balance in mental and emotional health.Modern mythologies are everywhere--from the Avengers of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to The Wicked + The Divine. Where once geek culture was niche and hidden, fandom characters and stories have blasted their way into our ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Islam in the Balance

    Ideational Threats in Arab Politics

    by Lawrence Rubin ...
    Islam in the Balance: Ideational Threats in Arab Politics is an analysis of how ideas, or political ideology, can threaten states and how states react to ideational threats. It examines the threat perception and policies of two Arab Muslim majority states, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in response to the rise and activities of two revolutionary "Islamic states," established in Iran (1979) and Sudan ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Turkey and the Arab Spring: Leadership in the Middle East

    by Graham E. Fuller ...
    The Middle East in the 21st century has witnessed a game-changing rollercoaster ride that has transformed relationships across the boards. Turkey underwent the most dramatic changes of its democratic history, propelling it into the role of major regional actor. The "Arab Spring" cast the region into political and social turmoil. US-led wars devastated the lands and peoples of several countries ... Read more

    $5.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Islam and the Arab Awakening

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    One of the most important developments in the modern history of the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring began in Tunisia in December 2010, bringing down dictators, sparking a civil war in Libya, and igniting a bloody uprising in Syria. Its long-term repercussions in Egypt and elsewhere remain unclear. Now one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers examines and explains it, in this searching, ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Battle for Saudi Arabia

    Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power

    by As'Ad Abukhalil ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power , Professor As`ad AbuKhalil confronts the contradictory nature of Saudi Arabia—questions that both the Saudi government, long shrouded in mystery, and the United States government, ever protective of its own interests, seem unwilling to answer.In this unsparing probe into the history and power structure of the kingdom, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Syria - Ballots or Bullets?

    by Carsten Wieland ...
    US conservatives have long trumpeted a hard line--and even US military action--against Syria. Yet the current unrest and the regime's apparent lack of concern about international opinion after its brutal crackdown on Dera'a show that Syria's immediate neighbors support the dictatorial Baath regime as a better alternative than the uncertainties of a democracy that might well be dominated by Islamic ... Read more

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  • Ashes of Hama

    The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

    by Raphael Lefevre ...
    When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba'athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the "Syrian Muslim Brotherhood" and its "al-Qaeda affiliates." But who are these Islamists so determined to rule a post-Assad Syria? Little has been published on militant Islam in Syria since Hafez Assad's regime destroyed the Islamist movement in its ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Sectarian Gulf

    Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring That Wasn't

    by Toby Matthiesen ...
    As popular uprisings spread across the Middle East, popular wisdom often held that the Gulf States would remain beyond the fray. In Sectarian Gulf, Toby Matthiesen paints a very different picture, offering the first assessment of the Arab Spring across the region. With first-hand accounts of events in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, Matthiesen tells the story of the early protests, and ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Making the Arab World

    Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

    by Fawaz A. Gerges ...
    How the conflict between political Islamists and secular-leaning nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle EastIn 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country’s first democratically elected president—Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood—and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group. These bloody ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

    Updated Edition

    by Jenny White, Jenny White ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish ... Read more

    $25.99 USD