Politics and Change in the Middle East: Sources of Conflict and Accomodation, Seventh Edition

Rating:
Summary: Insightful and well balanced -- a truely scholarly effort
Review: As a college student majoring in Economics, I was privileged to study with two of the authors of this book. However I read this book not as part of a curriculum but as side-reading. Having read several books on the Middle East (and being well familiar with the area including some undergraduate research), I can safely say that it is one of the most insightful books written on the subject.

The authors bring their expertise and familiarity with three different disciplines (anthropology, international relations and economics), combined with thorough on-site research. This extremely well-written book traces the history of conflict in the Middle East, the high and low points, the personalities who positively or negatively shaped the course of Middle Eastern history.

I believe it is recommended reading for any person today who wants to understand the Middle East better and who wants to increase their awareness of the global village we all are citizens of. More importantly though, this book should be recommended reading for future researchers, scholars and teachers as a guide to 'understanding, studying and researching a new culture or a differnet people'.

The techniques used in researching this topic truely do justice to a topic, which is very difficult to research, and write about, while maintaining brevity, objectivity and yet, not sacrificing thoroughness of research.

An excellent book, a must-have for academics and people who want to have a deeper understanding of the Middle East as well as become familiar with the unique style and techniques of research utilized in this work.

Rating:
Summary: Insightful and well balanced -- a truely scholarly effort
Review: As a college student majoring in Economics, I was privileged to study with two of the authors of this book. However I read this book not as part of a curriculum but as side-reading. Having read several books on the Middle East (and being well familiar with the area including some undergraduate research), I can safely say that it is one of the most insightful books written on the subject.

The authors bring their expertise and familiarity with three different disciplines (anthropology, international relations and economics), combined with thorough on-site research. This extremely well-written book traces the history of conflict in the Middle East, the high and low points, the personalities who positively or negatively shaped the course of Middle Eastern history.

I believe it is recommended reading for any person today who wants to understand the Middle East better and who wants to increase their awareness of the global village we all are citizens of. More importantly though, this book should be recommended reading for future researchers, scholars and teachers as a guide to 'understanding, studying and researching a new culture or a differnet people'.

The techniques used in researching this topic truely do justice to a topic, which is very difficult to research, and write about, while maintaining brevity, objectivity and yet, not sacrificing thoroughness of research.

An excellent book, a must-have for academics and people who want to have a deeper understanding of the Middle East as well as become familiar with the unique style and techniques of research utilized in this work.