The Foundations of the Arab State deals with the conceptual, historical, and cultural environment in which the contemporary Arab state system was established an

The Arab state is often perceived and represented as a fragile structure. This book investigates the foundations and prospects for the state and is a ground-bre

This trenchant history of praetorianism in the Arab world recounts the baleful influence of the armed forces in shaping the region's political landscape over th

This volume, first published in 1988, analyses the process of stabilisation amongst the Arab states, a process that has contradicted all predictions of impendin