This new text offers an introduction to the complex area of Middle East politics, Bromley formulates a new way of analysing politics in the Middle East and develops a perspective which has major implications for rethinking Third World politics more generally.

Simon Bromley is Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Leeds. He is also co-author of Thatcherism (Polity, 1988) and author of American Hegemony and World Oil (Polity, 1990).