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Negotiating Change: The New Politics of the Middle East (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)
by Jeremy Jones
Product Group: Book
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd (2006-11-24)
ISBN: 1845112695
EAN: 9781845112691
Dewy Decimal #: 320.956
Hardcover: 224 pages
SKU: B241-1764
Condition: New
Comments: New & Shrinkwrapped. In stock - Immediate despatch from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Customer Reviews
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Unusually insightful overview of the Middle East today
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-02-05
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This well written study offers an unusually insightful and lucid overview of the Middle East today. It clearly reflects many years of association with the region, as well as deep and thoughtful research into the major issues shaping its politics today. Jones is one of the rare Western writers to, for instance, see the "Dubai bubble" theory for the absurd myth it is. Moreover, his well thought through views on the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas will, I suspect, prove prophetic in the years to come. This book should be prescribed reading for world leaders responsible for shaping foreign policy, especially those in the USA. As one living and working in the region, I recommend it highly.
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Remarkable
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-25
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is elegantly written and constructed; the research exhaustive; and the thesis entirely persuasive. It contains a lucid deconstruction of the staggering complexities of Middle Eastern politics - and notions of democracy itself - as well as a delicate (but no less illuminating, or forceful) refutation of the merits of intervention. Jeremy Jones has spoken to many of the most important figures in the region; anyone interested in what democracy means to the 21st Century, and how the West must revise its blinkered cultural prerequisites now, should read it.
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Important contribution to Middle East debate
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-12-16
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Jones has produced a book that should help everyone involved in the Middle East affairs to re-think their positions. He shows clearly that simplistic and rigid categories imposed on the region by the rest of the world don't fit and that change has to be driven from within the region not from outside. He does this in a way that is highly readable. He portraits of key countries within the region will over new insights even for the very seasoned expert. I intend to buy a copy for every expert I send on assignment to the region.
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