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Five Journal Articles I Liked (This Week)
Post-Islamism, university elections, teaching gender politics, Iraqi development and more!
Marc Lynch
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Gulf Security and Gulf Insecurity
David Roberts' sweeping overview of change and continuity in the Gulf monarchies
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Is China forging an alternative Middle Eastern order?
Dawn Murphy's new account of China's long-term strategy in Africa, the Middle East and the Global South
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Is this really why we invaded Iraq?
What's missing from a new history of the Bush administration's catastrophic war decision
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Contextualizing China's mediation between Saudi Arabia and Iran
This week's podcast features two new books on the evolution of Saudi Arabia's place in the global and regional order
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How badly are MENA political scientists really doing?
Two new studies of journal publication trends shed more light on what is and isn't getting published, and why it matters.
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It's the 250th episode of the Middle East Political Science Podcast!
What makes new democracies durable, or not; and Tunisia's horrifying racist turn
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What happened to the Muslim Brotherhood?
A short, incisive and deeply informed look inside the shattered remains of Egypt's Islamists.
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Order Out of Chaos
David Patel's fascinating inquiry into how Iraqis rebuilt order after the US invasion and the collapse of Saddam's state
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The Earthquake in Turkey and Syria
A statement by members of the APSA's MENA Politics Section
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MENA Scholar Spotlight: Steven Brooke
Learn more about a rising scholar of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, and more
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Beyond the Lines
Sarah Parkinson's brilliant new book shows what really holds insurgencies together