Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, Vol.15, No.2 (December 2024)

Bustan Vol.15, No.2 (December 2024).

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Articles:

• What Happens When Empires Die? Justin Fantauzzo
  Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East, Jonathan Wyrtzen
  When Democracy Died: The Middle East’s Enduring Peace of Lausanne, Hans-Lukas Kieser
   
• Algerian Democracy: An Oxymoron or Usurped Opportunity? John P. Entelis
  The Suspended Disaster: Governing by Crisis in Bouteflika’s Algeria, Thomas Serres
  Understanding the Persistence of Competitive Authoritarianism in Algeria, Dalia Ghanem
   
• The Gulf States’ Decade, Jean-Loup Samaan
  The Gulf Monarchies after the Arab Spring: Threats and Security, Cinzia Bianco
  Seeking Stability amidst Disorder: The Foreign Policies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar, Tobias Borck
  New Order in the Gulf: Rise of the UAE, Dina Esfandiary

Book Review:

• The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, Steve Coll
  Review by: Michael Brill
   
• Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021, Elizabeth Perego
  Review by: Jakob Krais
   
• The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East, Steven Cook
  Review by: Christina Brun
   
• In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East, Aaron Rock-Singer
  Review by: Daniel Lav
   
• What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom, Arash Azizi
  Review by: Alex T. Smith
   
• Kuwait and Al-Sabah: Tribal Politics and Power in an Oil State, Rivka Azoulay
  Review by: Clemens Chay
   
• Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict, Oren Kessler
  Review by: Bruce Hoffman
   
• Rethinking State and Border Formation in the Middle East: Turkish-Syrian-Iraqi Borderlands, 1921–1946, Jordi Tejel
  Review by: Djene Rhys Bajalan
   
• Security Assistance in the Middle East: Challenges and the Need for Change, Hicham Aloui and Robert Springborg, eds.
  Review by: Dennis C. Jett
   
• Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West, Gilles Kepel
  Review by: Mark Sedgwick
   
• Kurds in Dark Times: New Perspectives on Violence and Resistance in Turkey, Ayça Alemdaroglu and Fatma Müge Göçek, eds.
  Review by: William Gourlay
   
• Football in the Middle East: State, Society, and the Beautiful Game, Abdullah Al-Arian, ed.
  Review by: James M. Dorsey
   
• Does Counter-Terrorism Work?, Richard English
  Review by: John A. Nagl
   
• Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship, David Tal
  Review by: Robert O. Freedman
   
• Key Terms of the Qur’an: A Critical Dictionary, Nicolai Sinai
  Review by: Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi
   
• Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, Avi Shlaim
  Review by: Anita Shapira
   

Briefly Noted:

• The Art of Diplomacy, Stuart Eizenstat
  Review by: Itamar Rabinovich