Tareq Y. Ismael is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada and is the Secretary General of the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies. He has published extensively on the Middle East, Iraq and international studies. His most recent works include Government and Politics in the Contemporary Middle East: Continuity and Change, with Jacqueline S. Ismael (Routledge 2011), and The Sudanese Communist Party: Ideology and Party Politics (Routledge, 2012).Glenn E. Perry is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana State University. Reflecting interdisciplinary interests that often extend beyond political science to history and religion, his books include The Middle East: Fourteen Islamic Centuries (1997), and The History of Egypt (2004).

• Part I Broad Patterns 1 Toward a framework for analysis 2 Imperialism and its manifestations in the Middle East – William W. Haddad and Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi Part II The Center in an Age of Inequality 3 The United States: a hegemon challenged – Stephen Zunes 4 Israel: the limits of conventional and nuclear deterrence – Ghada Talhami Part III Potential Counterbalancing Forces 5 Post-revolutionary Iran: resisting global and regional hegemony- Mojtaba Mahdavi 6 Egypt: the continuing storm?- Karen Abul 7 Turkey under the AKP: axis change or pragmatic activism- Tozun Bahcheli 8 "Identity politics": Europe, the EU and the Arab Spring- Philip Marfleet and Fran Cetti 9 The United Nations and the Middle East: a guide for the perplexed – Richard Falk

Tareq Y. Ismael is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada and is the Secretary General of the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies. He has published extensively on the Middle East, Iraq and international studies. His most recent works include Government and Politics in the Contemporary Middle East: Continuity and Change, with Jacqueline S. Ismael (Routledge 2011), and The Sudanese Communist Party: Ideology and Party Politics (Routledge, 2012).Glenn E. Perry is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana State University. Reflecting interdisciplinary interests that often extend beyond political science to history and religion, his books include The Middle East: Fourteen Islamic Centuries (1997), and The History of Egypt (2004).

• Part I Broad Patterns 1 Toward a framework for analysis 2 Imperialism and its manifestations in the Middle East – William W. Haddad and Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi Part II The Center in an Age of Inequality 3 The United States: a hegemon challenged – Stephen Zunes 4 Israel: the limits of conventional and nuclear deterrence – Ghada Talhami Part III Potential Counterbalancing Forces 5 Post-revolutionary Iran: resisting global and regional hegemony- Mojtaba Mahdavi 6 Egypt: the continuing storm?- Karen Abul 7 Turkey under the AKP: axis change or pragmatic activism- Tozun Bahcheli 8 "Identity politics": Europe, the EU and the Arab Spring- Philip Marfleet and Fran Cetti 9 The United Nations and the Middle East: a guide for the perplexed – Richard Falk

Tareq Y. Ismael is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada and is the Secretary General of the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies. He has published extensively on the Middle East, Iraq and international studies. His most recent works include Government and Politics in the Contemporary Middle East: Continuity and Change, with Jacqueline S. Ismael (Routledge 2011), and The Sudanese Communist Party: Ideology and Party Politics (Routledge, 2012).Glenn E. Perry is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana State University. Reflecting interdisciplinary interests that often extend beyond political science to history and religion, his books include The Middle East: Fourteen Islamic Centuries (1997), and The History of Egypt (2004).

• Part I Broad Patterns 1 Toward a framework for analysis 2 Imperialism and its manifestations in the Middle East – William W. Haddad and Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi Part II The Center in an Age of Inequality 3 The United States: a hegemon challenged – Stephen Zunes 4 Israel: the limits of conventional and nuclear deterrence – Ghada Talhami Part III Potential Counterbalancing Forces 5 Post-revolutionary Iran: resisting global and regional hegemony- Mojtaba Mahdavi 6 Egypt: the continuing storm?- Karen Abul 7 Turkey under the AKP: axis change or pragmatic activism- Tozun Bahcheli 8 "Identity politics": Europe, the EU and the Arab Spring- Philip Marfleet and Fran Cetti 9 The United Nations and the Middle East: a guide for the perplexed – Richard Falk