LibGuides: AUB Faculty and Staff Book Publications: 2019-Present: Political Studies and Public Administration

Books by year

التغيير السياسي في مجتمع تعددي by سيمون كشر
Publication Date: 2023
يبحث الدكتور سيمون كشر في كتابه الجديد "التغيير السياسي في مجتمع تعددي - تجربة فؤاد شهاب"، التغيّير السياسيّ في مجتمع لبنان التعدّدي، وعمّا إذا كانت التعدّديّة السياسيّة والثقافيّة والاجتماعيّة والدينيّة والطائفيّة عقبةً في وجه التغيّير السياسيّ والوحدة السياسيّة، متّخذةً من عهد الرئيس فؤاد شهاب (1958 - 1964)، أو ما عُرِفَ "بالشهابية" نقطةَ انطلاقٍ. وتدرس هذا التغيير في لبنان على مدى ذلك الزمن وحتى أيّامنا مروراً بالحرب في لبنان في السنوات 1975 - 1990، فاتّفاق الطائف، وصولاً إلى هذه الأيام. ويعرض كشر للتجربة الشهابيّة أو تجربة عهد الرئيس فؤاد شهاب (1958 - 1964)، ويبحث كيفيّة تأليفِ الحكومات في هذا العهد وإدارة الإدارة العامّة وإصدار المراسيم الاشتراعيّة، بالإضافة إلى كيفيّة إدارة الرئيس فؤاد شهاب وأركانه للعدالة الاجتماعية وإدارتهم للعلاقات العابرة للطوائف. ويتناول أيضاً لبنان وعلاقاته الإقليميّة والدوليّة خلال العهد الشهابي، وممارسة الرئيس شهاب للحكم الرئاسيّ بما في ذلك المكتب الثاني والجيش والقضاء. كما يتطرق إلى مهمّات بعثة "ايرفد" وبناء السياسات العامة، فآلية التغيير المعتمدة خلال العهد الشهابي والدولة البانية للمواطنيّة والمواطنيّة البانية للدولة.

APA citation:

Kachar, S. (2023). al-Taghyīr al-siyāsī fī mujtamaʻ taʻaddudī. Dār Sāʼir al-Mashriq lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ. Available at UL

The Labour Movement in Lebanon by Lea Bou Khater; Simon Mabon (Series edited by)
Publication Date: 2022
The labour movement in Lebanon narrates the history of the Lebanese labour movement from the early twentieth century to today. Bou Khater demonstrates that trade unionism in the country has largely been a failure, for reasons including state interference, tactical co-optation, and the strategic use of sectarianism by an oligarchic elite, together with the structural weakness of a service-based laissez-faire economy. Drawing on a vast body of Arabic-language primary sources and difficult-to-access archives, the book's conclusions are significant not only for trade unionism, but also for new forms of workers' organisations and social movements in Lebanon and beyond.

APA citation:

Bou Khater, L. (2022). The labour movement in Lebanon: Power on hold. Manchester University Press. Available at UL (1 user at a time)

Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup by Paul Michael Brannagan; Danyel Reiche
Publication Date: 2022
This book offers the first, full academic analysis of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. Adopting an international relations perspective, the authors critically interrogate the politics and controversy that has surrounded arguably the most controversial sports event ever. In doing so, this text offers up an imperative examination of Qatar's desired objectives through their investment in global sport and sports events, as well as provides readers with an academic explanation on why major event hosts - such as Qatar - receive so much international scrutiny in the pre-event stage of the event hosting process.

APA citation:

Brannagan, P. M., & Reiche, D. (2022). Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96822-9 Available at UL

The Russian Military Intervention in Syria by Ohannes Geukjian
Call Number: J 956.9104:G395r
Publication Date: 2022
Ohannes Geukjian analyzes the history of Russian military presence in the Middle East and the country's growing frustration with American and Western policy, revealing the objectives behind Russia's use of military power - namely, to maintain its regional influence in Eurasia and to enhance its status in the world. Geukjian provides a detailed examination of the Geneva and Astana peace processes, the geopolitical objectives of Turkey, Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, and how disagreements between Russia and the United States over issues of regime change, global security, and armaments have negative implications for international conflict management.

APA citation:

Geukjian, O. (2022). The Russian military intervention in Syria. McGill-Queen's University Press. Available at UL

International and Local Actors in Disaster Response by Tania N. Haddad
Publication Date: 2022
International and Local Actors in Disaster Response uses the Beirut explosion in August 2020 to explore disaster prevention and response in developing states. This book analyzes the role of international and local organizations in responding to the disaster in Beirut and assesses the interorganizational collaboration between the public and private sectors following the explosion. The author develops a conceptual framework of government/non-profit relations in post-disaster management and examines the long-term disaster response and intervention of both international and local communities in a developing world context.

APA citation:

Haddad, T. N. (2022). International and local actors in disaster response: Responding to the Beirut explosion. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003222545

Routledge handbook of sport in the Middle East by Danyel Reiche (Editor); Paul Michael Brannagan (Editor)
Publication Date: 2022
This Handbook provides a succinct overview of sport in the Middle East, drawing in scholars from a wide variety of geographical and disciplinary backgrounds (history, politics, sociology, economics and regional studies), with different methodological approaches, to create the 'go-to' text on the subject. The authors help shed light on how certain Middle Eastern countries have become increasingly active in international sports, and the efforts made to positioning themselves as the new global 'sports hubs'.

APA citation:

Reiche, D., & Brannagan, P. M. (Eds.). (2022). Routledge handbook of sport in the Middle East. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032915 Available at UL

L'esprit de la révolte: Archives et actualité des révolutions Arabes by Leyla Dakhli with contributions by Amin Allal, Kmar Bendana, Mohamed Slim Ben Youssef, Youssef El Chazli, Elena Chiti, Simon Dubois, Giulia Fabbiano, Samer Frangieh, Mélanie Henry, Loulouwa Al-Rachid
Publication Date: 2020
L’Esprit de la révolte propose de lire la puissance politique des printemps arabes, leurs répertoires d’actions, les circulations de formes protestataires depuis leurs archives. Traces du temps révolutionnaire, ces documents sont autant de balises pour le futur si l’on prend le temps de les regarder, de les lire, de les écouter. Et nous espérons que nos lectrices et lecteurs pourront voir ce qui se raconte ici en creux des places européennes, des rues sud-américaines et d'une aspiration globale à « changer de système

APA citation:

Dakhli, L., with contributions by Allal, A., Bendana, K., Ben Youssef, M. S., El Chazli, Y., Chiti, E., Dubois, S., Fabbiano, G., Frangie, S., Henry, M., & Al-Rachid, L. (2020). L'esprit de la révolte: Archives et actualité des révolutions Arabes. Seuil.

Sport, politics and society in the Middle East by Danyel Reiche (Editor); Tamir Sorek (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020
Sport in the Middle East has become a major issue in global affairs. The contributors to this timely volume discuss the intersection of political and cultural processes related to sport in the region. The book draws on academic disciplines from the humanities and social sciences to offer in-depth, theoretically grounded, and richly empirical case studies. It employs diverse research methodologies, from ethnography and in-depth interviews to archival research, to make a lasting contribution to this critical subject.

APA citation:

Reiche, D. R., & Sorek, T. (Eds.). (2020). Sport, politics and society in the Middle East. Oxford University Press. 10.1093/oso/9780190065218.001.0001 Available at UL

Missions impossible: Higher education and policymaking in the Arab world by John Waterbury
Publication Date: 2020
Missions Impossible seeks to explain the process of policymaking in higher education in the Arab world, a process that is shaped by the region’s politics of autocratic rule. Higher education in the Arab world is directly linked to crises in economic growth, social inequality and, as a result, regime survival. If unsuccessful, higher education could be the catalyst to regime collapse. If successful, it could be the catalyst to sustained growth and innovation—but that, too, could unleash forces that the region’s autocrats are unable to control. Leaders are risk-averse and therefore implement policies that tame the universities politically but in the process sap their capabilities for innovation and knowledge creation. The result is suboptimal and, argues John Waterbury in this thought-provoking study, unsustainable.

APA citation:

Waterbury, J. (2020). Missions impossible: Higher education and policymaking in the Arab world. The American University in Cairo Press. https://aucpress.com/product/missionsimpossible/

Religion and civil society in the Arab world : in the vortex of globalization and tradition by Tania Haddad and Elie Al Hindy (Eds.)
Call Number: J 300.956:R382h
Publication Date: 2019
This book examines the links between civil society, religion and politics in the Middle East and North Africa region. The chapters explore the role of religion in shaping and changing the public sphere in regions that are developing and/or in conflict. They also discuss how these relations are reflected on civil society organizations and the role they are expected to play in transitional periods.

APA citation:

Haddad, T., & Al Hindy, E. (Eds.). (2019). Religion and civil society in the Arab world: In the vortex of globalization and tradition. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429462955 Available at UL

Hizbullah: A mission to nowhere by Hilal Khashan
Publication Date: 2019
This book explores the rise of Hizbullah as a direct consequence of both the Iranian Revolution and the entanglement of Lebanon in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Protracted civil war and overwhelming foreign intervention by Lebanon's neighbors enabled Hizbullah to emerge as the country's dominant politico-military force. Hizbullah disabled the Lebanese political system and, in its capacity as Iran's premier foreign proxy, allowed the Islamic Republic to take the lead in the regional tug of war with Israel. This book examines the rise of Hizbullah and the marginalization and repression of Shi'ites that made them susceptible to exploitation by their sectarian leaders.

APA citation:

Khashan, H. (2019). Hizbullah: A mission to nowhere. Lexington Books. Available at UL

Book chapters by year

APA citations:

Frangie, S. (2023). Wondering about the social. In J. G. Karam & R. Majed (Eds.), The Lebanon uprising of 2019: Voices from the revolution (pp. 43-51). I. B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755644469 Available at UL

Khodr, H. (2023). The internalization of higher education in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Oman: Inspirations, aspirations, and unintended consequences. In S. Kamyab & R. Latiner Raby (Eds.), Unintended consequences of internationalization in higher education: Comparative international perspectives on the impacts of policy and practice (pp. 97-118). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003189916 Available at UL

Khodr, H. (2023). Overcoming Jihadism in Arabia: Preventing violent extremism policies in the Gulf monarchies. In L. A. Lambert & M. Elayah (Eds.), The Post-American Middle East: How the world changed where the war on terror failed (pp. 177-210). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29912-4_7 Available at UL

Mouawad, J. (2023). Lebanon's Wadi Khaled and the challenge of sovereignty. In S. Haugbolle & M. LeVine (Eds.), Altered states (pp. 173-192). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/b22870-8

Riachi, R. (2023). Filthy flows of power: A political ecology of disasters in Lebanon. In J. G. Karam & R. Majed (Eds.), The Lebanon uprising of 2019: Voices from the revolution (pp. 65-75). I. B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755644469 Available at UL

APA citations:

Bahn, R., Tell, T., & Zurayk, R. (2022). Social life, from rural to urban. In S. Yom (Ed.), The societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Structures, vulnerabilities, and forces (2^nd ed., pp. 31-73). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003052784

Reiche, D. (2022). Inclusivity in an environment of exclusive citizenship: The multinational Qatari women's rugby team. In D. Reiche & P. M. Brannagan (Eds.), Routledge handbook of sport in the Middle East (pp. 364-375). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032915

Reiche, D., & Brannagan, P. M. (2022). Introduction: Sports in the Middle East: Towards more inclusion and collaborative efforts?. In D. Reiche & P. M. Brannagan (Eds.), Routledge handbook of sport in the Middle East (pp. 1-10). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032915

Waterbury, J. (2022). Is Egypt's higher education system broken? In K. Ikram & H. Nassar (Eds.), The Egyptian economy in the twenty-first century: The hard road to inclusive prosperity (pp. 189-220). American University in Cairo Press. https://aucpress.com/product/the-egyptian-economy-in-the-twenty-first-century/

APA citations:

Frangie, S. (2020). The afterlives of Husayn Muruwwa: The killing of an intellectual, 1987. In L. Guirguis (Ed.), The Arab lefts: Histories and legacies, 1950s–1970s (pp. 243-258). Edinburgh University Press. Available at UL

Reiche, D. (2020). Legacies of mega-sporting events in developing countries: A case study of Lebanon. In D. Reiche & T. Sorek (Eds.), Sport, politics and society in the Middle East (ch. 9). Oxford University Press. 10.1093/oso/9780190065218.001.0001 Available at UL

Sorek, T., & Reiche, D. (2020). Introduction. In D. Reiche & T. Sorek (Eds.), Sport, politics and society in the Middle East. Oxford University Press. 10.1093/oso/9780190065218.001.0001 Available at UL

APA citations:

Ajamian, M., & Haase, T. W. (2019). Constraints on Lebanese nongovernmental organizations: A survey of the literature. In T. Haddad & E. Al Hindy (Eds.), Religion and civil society in the Arab world: In the vortex of globalization and tradition (pp. 160-185). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429462955 Available at UL

Bahn, R., Tell, T., & Zurayk, R. (2019). Social life, from rural to urban. In S. Yom (Ed.), The societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Structures, vulnerabilities, and forces (1st ed., pp. 33-78). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429507311 Available at UL

Haddad, T., & Al Hindy, E. (2019). Introduction: Changing role of civil society in the Arab world. In T. Haddad & E. Al Hindy (Eds.), Religion and civil society in the Arab world: In the vortex of globalization and tradition (pp. 1-17). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429462955 Available at UL

Haddad, T., Haase, T. W., & Ajamian, M. (2019). Religion, relief and reform: The history of civil society in Lebanon. In T. Haddad & E. Al Hindy (Eds.), Religion and civil society in the Arab world: In the vortex of globalization and tradition (pp. 128-159). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429462955 Available at UL

Haddad, T., & Zalzal, Y. (2019). Civil society and non-profit governance in the Arab world. In T. Haddad & E. Al Hindy (Eds.), Religion and civil society in the Arab world: In the vortex of globalization and tradition (pp. 40-58). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429462955 Available at UL

Waterbury, J. (2019). Reform of higher education in the Arab world. In A. Badran, E. Baydoun, & J. Hillman (Eds.), Major challenges facing higher education in the Arab world: Quality assurance and relevance (pp. 133-166). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03774-1_7 Available at UL