Emerging scholarship on the Middle East and central Asia : moving from the periphery /

In this book, scholars specializing in the Middle East and central Asia provide fresh analysis and cutting-edge critique of phenomena and events across the region. Authors draw on multiple disciplinary traditions and cover a broad geography, in order to challenge understandings and propose new forms...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Quenzer, Katlyn, 1988- (Editor), Syed, Maria, 1982- (Editor), Yarbakhsh, Elisabeth, 1981- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
Subjects:	Middle East > Study and teaching. Asia, Central > Study and teaching.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : alternative frameworks: accounting for the overlooked / Katlyn Quenzer and Maria Syed
Emerging trends and debates in Gulf studies / Matthew Gray
Impending decline? a reassessment of Saudi power / Maria Syed
Iranian nationalism from its (Afghan) margins / Elisabeth Yarbakhsh
Between (ethno-)nationalism and political Islam : the Kurdish movement as a "third way" in Turkey / William Gourlay
State formation and social conflict in Syria : causalities, unintended consequences, and analytical trajectories / Harout Akdedian
Seen from a distance : political contexts for Middle Eastern contemporary art / Sam Bowker
The Afghan threat to the security of the central Asian nations : myth or reality? / Azam Isabaev
When East looks West to the Middle East / Ian Nelson.