Contemporary West Asia: Politics and Development
New Century Publications, July 2010, Pages: 320
War, conflict and terrorism define the face of contemporary West Asia at popular level. However there are far more other important issues and challenges that are currently troubling the governments of West Asian nations. These include (a) political, economic and social challenges, (b) Islamic militancy, (c) growing unemployment, (d) democratic reforms, (e) human rights, (f) living conditions of expatriates, and (g) urbanization. Added to this list are environmental risks with such dimensions as overfishing, soil and water pollution by petroleum industry, scarcity of fresh water and desertification. This book?containing 11 contributions by scholars in the field?deals with these internal challenges of the region.
1. Neo-Liberalism and Development Debates: Contextualizing in Saudi Arabia - Jajati K. Pattnaik
2. The GCC Countries? Response to Desertification - A. Kannan
3. Globalisation and Social Change: The Case of United Arab Emirates (UAE) - Asif Suja
4. Migrant Work and Human Rights in the GCC Countries: Emerging Scenario after Migrant Labour Unrest - M.V. Bijulal
5. Water Sharing in West Asia: A Case Study of the Euphrates River System - Gazzala Sabana
6. Aspects of Economy and Human Resource Development in Israel - Kumar Raka
7. Situating the Hobbesian State of Iraq in Contemporary International Relations - Arshi Khan
8. Oil, Democracy and Terrorism: An Inevitable Nexus in the Gulf - Vrushal Ghoble
9. Islamic Responses to the Western Modernity Project: Within and Beyond - Kundan Kumar
10. Changing Dynamics of Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptian Politics - Fazzur Rahman
11. Islamic Resurgence in the Age of Globalization and Democracy: Hamas? Changing Strategies in Palestinian National Movement - Rajeesh Kumar P. P
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Anwar Alam is currently Professor and Director, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has served as a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), and Assistant and Associate Professor at the Centre for West Asian and African Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He has been awarded the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship (1991), International Visitor Programme (Islamic) Scholarship, USA, (2002), Indo-French Social Scientist Exchange Programme Fellowship (2003) and Alexandor Von Humboldt Post Doctoral Fellowship (2004-2006). He has been Visiting Fellow at Maison des Sciences de l?Homme (MSH), Paris, France (March-April 2005), Centre for Citizenship and Ethnicity, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK (May-June 2005) and at International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden, Netherlands (July-August 2005). He has authored 3 books, Religion and State: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia (1998); India and West Asia in the Era of Globalisation (edited, 2008) and Iran and Post- 9/11 World Order (edited, 2009). Besides, he has contributed several articles in national and international referred journals and chapters in edited books. His areas of research interest include International Politics, Political Theory, Religion and Politics, Political Islam, Globalisation and Muslim Society.
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