For undergraduate Political Science courses on the Middle East, Comparative Politics, and International Relations.
A multi-disciplinary introduction to the Middle East, Politics in the Middle East provides an overview of history, geography, cultures, and religions and leads up to the region’s Twenty-first Century conflicts, including the Iraq War. With its emphasis on basic concepts and vocabulary, and its use of illustrative case studies, Politics of the Middle East provides an exciting tool for the basic understanding of this very complex region.
Authors Michael Roskin and James Coyle have written a clear, engaging text that will enable students to better understand the politics of the Middle East. With two separate chapters on Turkey and the Kurds, as well as great, in-depth coverage of Middle Eastern history, geography, and conflicts—including the 2003 Iraq war—this Middle Eastern politics text illustrates the interrelated complexities of the Middle East in ways that will seem real rather than abstract.