Nationalism and revolution in the Arab world: the middle east and North Africa

Nationalism and revolution in the Arab world provides an analysis of the forces that have shaped and continue to shape the politics of the Middle East including North Africa. Free for the first time in many centuries from European domination, the Arab states have evolved three basic governmental systems: the monarchial or "palace" system, the republican multiparty system, an the revolutionary single party system. The post-war patterns of coup d'etat and the impact of revolutionary waves are ted an discussed, and the new "Left" is examined in the ideologies of three core movements in Algeria, Egypt and Syria. A fascinating survey of the indigent language of politics and political vocabulary plus a selection of newly translated political documents add an incisive quality to the text. As Professor Halpern of Princeton University, a pre-publication reviewer, noted, "this is likely to be for the foreseeable future the best synthesis of the principal political issues of the Arab World."