1. Fault lines in Middle East politics / Shahram Akbarzadeh
2. Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa / Roel Meijer
3. Political Islam: a 40-year retrospective / Nader Hashemi
4. The power of ideology in the Middle East and its limits / Mohammed M. Hafez
5. Political parties in the Middle East: the unsolved problem of collective action / Marina Ottaway
6. Far-right populists in power and transnational repression of dissidents / Ihsan Yilmaz
7. Varieties of feminisms in the Middle East and North Africa / Valentine M. Moghadam
8. The political system in Iran: theocratic electoral authoritarianism / Shahram Akbarzadeh and Arif Saba
9. Where is Iranian politics? Between state and nation, inside and outside the polity / Annabelle Sreberny and Gholam Khiabany
10. Saudi Arabia's centralized political structure: prospects and challenges / Eman Alhussein
11. Bourdieu's social theory and the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran / Simon Mabon
12. External powers in the Middle East: views from within the region / Guy Burton
13. Us foreign policy toward the Middle East / Mahmood Monshipouri and Manochehr Dorraj
14. China's uneasy balancing in the Persian Gulf / Jonathan Fulton
15. A new regional fault line: the Middle East divided in search of a post-revolutionary order / Andreas Krieg
16. The political economies of the Arab Gulf states: policies for change, frameworks for stasis / Matthew Gray
17. Lebanon: politics as permanent crisis / Filippo Dionigi
18. "People, army, resistance": the end of Hizbullah's legacy / Mariam Farida
19. Palestine and international intervention / Dana El Kurd
20. Captured politics under colonial dominance: the case of Palestine / Basem Ezbidi
21. International talks in the Syrian conflict: a continuation of war by other means? / Bente Scheller
22. Globalized finance capital, hegemony and the Middle East: through the lens of radical political economy / Raymond Hinnebusch
23. Environmental security in the Middle East and North Africa: approaches, policy patterns and activism trends / Giulia Cimini
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