State, power and politics in the making of the modern Middle East / Roger Owen.

States and state building -- The end of empires : the emergence of the modern Middle Eastern state -- The growth of state power in the Arab world : the single-party regimes -- The growth of state power in the Arab world under familyrule, and the Libyan -- Alternative -- Arab nationalism, Arab unity and the practice of intra-Arab state relations -- State and politics in Israel, Iran and Turkey from the Second World War -- The remaking of the Middle Eastern political environment between the two -- Gulf wars -- Themes in contemporary Middle Easternpolitics -- The politics of economic restructuring -- Parties, elections and the vexed question of democracy in the Arab world -- The politics of religious revival -- The military in and out of politics -- Some important non-state actors -- The impact of the 11 September attacks -- America attempts to re-make the Middle East.