Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: p j vatikiotis

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  • NASSER AND HIS GENERATION
    P.J. VATIKIOTIS
    First published in 1978 Nasser and His Generation is one of the most important books on modern Egyptian history. It goes much further than a simple history of the Nasser regime or a psychobiography of the Egyptian ruler. It examines his personality, attitudes and beliefs and how these were informed or acquired and seeks to explain what and who he was. But it also considers Nass...

    $920.00

  • POLITICS AND THE MILITARY IN JORDAN
    P.J. VATIKIOTIS
    Amidst the turmoil in the Middle East, Jordan has presented a striking example of relative stability, and in this study, first published in 1967, Professor Vatikiotis sets out to show just how far Jordan’s stability depends on its army. The Jordan Arab Army, for long better known as the Arab Legion, was one of the best small fighting forces in the Middle East. Raised in 1921 by...

    $980.00

  • ISLAM AND THE STATE
    P. J. VATIKIOTIS
    Examining the theoretical problems which arose when the modern European ideology of nationalism was adopted by Muslim societies organized into formally modern states, this book, first published in 1987, also deals with the practical difficulties arising from the doctrinal incompatibility between Islam and the non-Muslim concept of the territorial nation-state. It illustrates th...

    $980.00

  • CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
    P.J. VATIKIOTIS
    The Middle East is a continuing crisis area in world politics. This crisp and penetrating book, first published in 1971, analyses the historical development of the major issues in Arab politics, explains the conflicting interests now at stake in the Middle East and how the politics of the area were likely to develop. It examines, among other topics, the Palestine Liberation Mov...

    $1,100.00

  • ARAB AND REGIONAL POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
    P.J. VATIKIOTIS
    Three main themes are explored in this book, first published in 1984: the first is the problem of religion and politics as a major and long-standing preoccupation of Middle-easterners or Arab Muslims themselves; the second is that of the conflict-ridden inter-Arab and regional politics, approached largely from a local rather than an international perspective; the third deals wi...

    $860.00

  • POPULAR AUTOCRACY IN GREECE, 1936-1941
    P.J. VATIKIOTIS
    The first major political biography of General Ioannis Metaxas, who assumed dictatorial power in Greece in 1936 and oversaw the resistance to the Italian invasion in the Second World War. As a political portrait of the man, the book puts much emphasis on the early career of Metaxas and his journey to state power, from 1920 to 1936. Drawing heavily on original Greek sources, the...

    $2,100.00

  • EGYPT SINCE THE REVOLUTION (RLE EGYPT)
    VATIKIOTIS, P.J.
    As the leaders of a revolutionary, nationalist regime, the Egyptian Free Officers who came to power following the 1952 Revolution committed themselves to the attainment of goals associated with modernization, namely rapid economic development based on State planning and industrialization and the political mobilization of society along State-decreed lines. Arising from a confere...

    $1,260.00