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The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future
Book Title Author(s) : Vali Nasr
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The critical struggle between Shia and Sunni for the future of the Middle East.To most Western eyes, all Islamic movements look alike, and the central conflict in the Middle East is one between religion and secularism. Shockingly little has been written about the bitter divide between Shia an...Read More

Forces of Fortune (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Free Press))
Book Title Author(s) : Vali Nasr
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Renowned Middle East expert Vali Nasr's bestselling The Shia Revival profoundly transformed the debate about the Iraq War by unveiling how the Sunni-Shia rift was driving the insurgency. Now, in Forces of Fortune, Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the und...Read More

Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty
Book Title Author(s) : Ali Gheissari, Vali Nasr
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Today Iran is once again in the headlines. Reputed to be developing nuclear weapons, the future of Iraq's next-door neighbor is a matter of grave concern both for the stability of the region and for the safety of the global community. President George W. Bush labeled it part of the "Axis of Evil," a...Read More

Iran: Assessing U.S. Strategic Options
Book Title Author(s) : James N. Miller, Christine Parthemore, Kurt M. Campbell, Dennis Ross, Suzanne Maloney, Ashton B. Carter, Vali Nasr, Richard N. Haass
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Dealing with Iran and its nuclear program will be an urgent priority for the next president. In order to evaluate U.S. policy options, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) convened a bipartisan group of experts on foreign policy and national security, retired military personnel, former dipl...Read More

Islamic Leviathan: Islam and the Making of State Power (Religion and Global Politics)
Book Title Author(s) : Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr
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Islamization is commonly seen as the work of Islamist movements who have forced their ideology on ruling regimes and other hapless social actors. There is little doubt that ruling regimes and disparate social and political actors alike are pushed in the direction of Islamic politics by Islamist forc...Read More

After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy (Stanford Economics and Finance)
Book Title Author(s) : Christopher J. Coyne
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Why does liberal democracy take hold in some countries but not in others? Why do we observe such different outcomes in military interventions, from Germany and Japan to Afghanistan and Iraq? Do efforts to export democracy help as much as they hurt? These are some of the most enduring questions of ...Read More

India, Pakistan, and Democracy: Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths
Book Title Author(s) : Philip Oldenburg
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The question of why some countries have democratic regimes and others do not is a significant issue in comparative politics. This book looks at India and Pakistan, two countries with clearly contrasting political regime histories, and presents an argument on why India is a democracy and Pakistan is ...Read More

Militancy and Political Violence in Shiism: Trends and Patterns
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This book is the first systematic assessment of current trends and patterns of militancy in Shii communities in the Middle East and South Asia - specifically in Iran, Iraq, but also in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Bahrain More than thirty years after the Islamic Revoluti...Read More

Transforming Faith: The Story of Al-Huda and Islamic Revivalism Among Urban Pakistani Women (Gender and Globalization)
Book Title Author(s) : Sadaf Ahmad
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Over the last fifteen years, there have been an increasing number of middle- and upper-class urban Pakistani women actively turning toward Islam via Al-Huda, an Islamic school for women that aims to transform the women who absorb its message into "pious" subjects. Established in the early 1990s, Al-...Read More

Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies)
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Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is...Read More

 

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