Area studies and social science : strategies for understanding Middle East politics / edited by Mark Tessler ; with Jodi Nachtwey and Anne Banda.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Politics in the Middle East : opportunities and limits in the quest for theory / Lisa Anderson -- State-society relations : Algeria as a case study / John P. Entelis -- Associational life : civil society in authoritarian political system / Augustus Richard Norton -- Explaining women's support for political Islam : contributions from feminist theory / Jodi Nachtwey and Mark Tessler -- Influencing public policy : banking and the political economy of collective action / Clement M. Henry -- Toward a theory of international labor migration : evidence from Egypt / Magda Kandil -- Religion and international conflict : an individual-level analysis / Mark Tessler and Jodi Nachtwey -- The Arab-Israeli conflict : lessons about diplomatic initiatives and negotiations / Laura Zittrain Eisenberg -- Middle Eastern alliances : from neorealism to political economy / Laurie A. Brand -- International relations theory : contributions from research in the Middle East / Bahgat Korany.