Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order

Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order

Tomaz Mastnak, "Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order"
Publisher: University of California Press | 2001 | ISBN 0520226356 | PDF | 421 pages | 21.3 MB

Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power structures within Christendom but also the relationship of the Western Christian world to the world outside. The unification of Christian society under the banner of "holy peace" precipitated a fundamental division between the Christian and non-Christian worlds, and the postulated peace among Christians led to holy war against non-Christians.

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The Al Jazeera Phenomenon

The Al Jazeera Phenomenon

Mohamed Zayani, "The Al Jazeera Phenomenon"
Publisher: Pluto Press | 2005 | ISBN 0745323332 | PDF | 230 pages | 11.1 MB

Few phenomena in the Arab world are more controversial than Al Jazeera - the satellite television news channel that, despite its brief history, has made its impact known throughout the world and changed the face of a formerly parochial Arab media. This timely collection of articles, many by Arabic-speaking scholars, gives us more information and analysis of the network - and how it has affected the public and even the foreign policies of Western governments - than any other of the very few books published in English up to now. The book provides rare insights into Al Jazeera's politics, its agenda, its programs, its coverage of regional crises, and its treatment of the West. The authors attempt to gauge the station's impact on ordinary Arab viewers, understand its effect on an increasingly visible Arab public sphere, and map out the role it plays in regional Arab politics. The image of Al Jazeera that emerges from this book is much more complex than its depiction in American media. It reveals the powerful role that the network plays in shaping ideas and reconstructing Arab identities during a crucial juncture in Middle Eastern history and politics.

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The Gulf Conflict and International Relations

The Gulf Conflict and International Relations

Ken Matthews, "The Gulf Conflict and International Relations"
Publisher: Routledge | 1993 | ISBN 041507519X | PDF | 352 pages | 15 MB

Key documents and essential facts, combined with a strong theoretical framework - this new textbook clarifies the Gulf War of 1991, puts it in the context of the changing international order and identifies long-term consequences.

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The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan

The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan

The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
Publisher: Harvard University Press | ISBN: 067402690X | edition 2008 | PDF | 448 pages | 1,4 mb

The Taliban remain one of the most elusive forces in modern history. A ragtag collection of clerics and madrasa students, this obscure movement emerged out of the rubble of the Cold War to shock the world with their draconian Islamic order. The Taliban refused to surrender their vision even when confronted by the United States after September 11, 2001. Reinventing themselves as part of a broad insurgency that destabilized Afghanistan, they pledged to drive out the Americans, NATO, and their allies and restore their "Islamic Emirate."
The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan explores the paradox at the center of this challenging phenomenon: how has a seemingly anachronistic band of religious zealots managed to retain a tenacious foothold in the struggle for Afghanistan's future? Grounding their analysis in a deep understanding of the country's past, leading scholars of Afghan history, politics, society, and culture show how the Taliban was less an attempt to revive a medieval theocracy than a dynamic, complex, and adaptive force rooted in the history of Afghanistan and shaped by modern international politics. Shunning journalistic accounts of its conspiratorial origins, the essays investigate broader questions relating to the character of the Taliban, its evolution over time, and its capacity to affect the future of the region.

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Markus E. Bouillon, "The Peace Business: Money and Power in the Palestine-Israel Conflict (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)"

The Peace Business: Money and Power in the Palestine-Israel Conflict (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)

Markus E. Bouillon, "The Peace Business: Money and Power in the Palestine-Israel Conflict (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)"
Publisher: I. B. Tauris | 2004 | ISBN 1850434433 | PDF | 256 pages | 1.5 MB

The Peace Business is a study of the evolution and consequences of business cooperation in the Middle East in the years of the peace process. Markus E. Bouillon examines how the engagement of entrepreneurs and businesspeople in the peace process, as well as how the nature of business ties between Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians, failed to strengthen and advance peace in the Middle East. In this important contribution to the Israel-Palestine debate, he argues that private business interests undermined economic and political stability domestically and thus contributed to the failure of the peace process.

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