Since gaining independence in 1956, Sudan has endured a troubled history, including the longest civil war in African history in Southern Sudan and more recent…

Examining globalization in the Middle East, this book provides a much needed assessment of the impact of globalization in the ‘greater’ Middle East, including North…

The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, has become the world’s largest, most influential Islamist group. After eight decades surviving as a populist religious…

Oman is the inheritor of a unique political tradition, the imama (imamate), and has a special place in the Arab Islamic world. From the eighth…

At a time of momentous shifts in the balance of world economic forces epitomized by the current oil price boom, the weakening US dollar and…

This book provides an assessment of relations between Iran and Europe, identifying the areas of common interest as well as the issues of conflict, whilst…

The position of the Persian Gulf as the main highway between East and West has long given this region special significance both within the Middle…

The Oslo secret negotiations from 1992 to 1993 were some of the most astonishing and also successful negotiations in the Middle East, leading to the…

Oman is the inheritor of a unique political tradition, the imama (imamate), and has a special place in the Arab Islamic world. From the eighth…