The Gulf Region: A New Hub of Global Financial Power?

Publication Date: September 2008

This book examines the Gulf region as a financial centre and an economic power hub, focusing on its role in the world economy and capital markets. In particular, the authors address the issue of whether wealth alone is enough to create an international financial centre.

Iran, Islam and Democracy

Publication Date: September 2006
This new edition includes political developments in Iran since the summer of 2000. It looks at the increasing polarity of views and the changing nature of 'reformism' in light of successive setbacks and growing international tensions.

A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine

Publication Date: January 2006
The Palestinians face a unique challenge to their national security as a people under occupation and in exile. This volume is the first of its kind to address security issues from a Palestinian perspective, with or without a two-state solution.

Aid, Diplomacy and Facts on the Ground

Publication Date: July 2005
This volume examines the complex relationships between aid, diplomacy and the actual 'facts on the ground' in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Israel and the Palestinians

Publication Date: April 2005
This volume examines the policy options under serious consideration among Israelis for resolving or managing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Islam, Politics and Pluralism

Publication Date: November 2003
A valuable, accessible and timely introduction to events and movements that lie behind the headlines of atrocity and terror

Engagement or Coercion?

Publication Date: September 2003
This timely study explores some of the options facing Western policy-makers in the Middle East after the war in Iraq in March-April 2003

Globalization and the Middle East

Publication Date: March 2002
The subject of globalization has come to dominate informed debate across a broad sweep of disciplines, but detailed published studies on the influence of globalization on non-European areas of the world are lacking in number and quality.

Iran, Islam and Democracy

Publication Date: December 2000
Current developments in Iran are forcing a fundamental reassessment of the relationship between Islam and the process of democratization in the Muslim world.

Managing New Developments in the Gulf

Publication Date: October 2000
The global energy sector may be more subject to market forces than it used to be, but management is still required in the interests of both producers and consumers.