Amin Saikal is Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Public Policy Fellow, and Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (the Middle East and Central Asia) at the Australian National University. He is the author of
The Rise and Fall of the Shah (Princeton) and
Modern Afghanistan. He lives in Canberra.
22 Ebooks by Amin Saikal
Amin Saikal: Iran Rising
An authoritative account of how and why the Islamic Republic has survived to become a critical player in the Middle East and the world When Iranians overthrew their monarchy, rejecting a pro-Western …
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€21.99
Amin Saikal: Iran at the Crossroads
Iran stands at a critical juncture in its history. In the era of Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama, the Islamic Republic has a unique opportunity to regain its traditional greatness as a …
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€16.99
Amin Saikal: The Arab World and Iran
This volume focuses on interpreting the changing domestic and regional dynamics in the Arab world and Iran. Its chapters discuss an array of countries, events, actors, and issues – from an …
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€117.69
Kirill Nourzhanov & Amin Saikal: Afghanistan and Its Neighbors after the NATO Withdrawal
The planned reductions in NATO troop numbers in Afghanistan through 2015 and a final withdrawal at the end of 2016 brings up numerous pressing questions about the security and national interests of …
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€47.41
William Maley & Amin Saikal: Regime Change In Afghanistan
This book is a study of regime change in an underdeveloped country with a weak state and strong autonomous social organizations. Regime change is in many countries a traumatic and disruptive …
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€49.94
William Maley & Amin Saikal: Regime Change In Afghanistan
This book is a study of regime change in an underdeveloped country with a weak state and strong autonomous social organizations. Regime change is in many countries a traumatic and disruptive …
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€49.94
Shahram Akbarzadeh & Benjamin MacQueen: American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East
The recent ‘Arab spring’, with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. The US invasions of Afghanis …
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€61.16
Shahram Akbarzadeh & Benjamin MacQueen: American Democracy Promotion in the Changing Middle East
The recent ‘Arab spring’, with its popular uprisings in many Arab countries, has exposed the ambiguity at the heart of American promotion of democracy in the Middle East. The US invasions of Afghanis …
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€61.18
G J Gill & Amin Saikal: Soviet Union As An Asian-pacific Power
This volume provides a useful analysis of the domestic dimension of Soviet foreign policy in Asia/Pacific. It considers the implications of Gorbachev’s 1986 Vladivostok Initiative on Northeast Asia, …
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€30.42
G J Gill & Amin Saikal: Soviet Union As An Asian-pacific Power
This volume provides a useful analysis of the domestic dimension of Soviet foreign policy in Asia/Pacific. It considers the implications of Gorbachev’s 1986 Vladivostok Initiative on Northeast Asia, …
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€30.28
M. Nazif Shahrani: Modern Afghanistan
What impact does 40 years of war, violence, and military intervention have on a country and its people? As the ‘global war on terror’ now stretches into the 21st century with no clear end in sight, I …
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€9.49
Amin Saikal: Weak States, Strong Societies
Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the previously well-established organisation of world politics has been thrown into disarray. While during the Cold War, the …
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€146.49
Amin Saikal: Zone of Crisis
The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis. Characterised by fractured and dysfunctional political elites, fraught …
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€50.41
Amitav Acharya & Amin Saikal: Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia
The protests that swept across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011 confounded long-time observers of the region, in both the media and academia. After addressing the conditions in …
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€134.94
Amin Saikal: The Rise and Fall of the Shah
On November 4, 1979, when students occupied the American Embassy in Tehran and subsequently demanded that the United States return the Shah in exchange for hostages, the deposed Iranian ruler’s regim …
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€42.99
Amitav Acharya & Amin Saikal: Democracy and Reform in the Middle East and Asia
The protests that swept across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and 2011 confounded long-time observers of the region, in both the media and academia. After addressing the conditions in …
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€135.27
Dr Kirill Nourzhanov & Amin Saikal: The Spectre of Afghanistan
Aiming to connect a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country”s past and present instability and how this impacts and is conceptualised by …
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€28.08
Dr Kirill Nourzhanov & Amin Saikal: The Spectre of Afghanistan
Aiming to connect a number of divergent perspectives on the current state of Afghanistan, this book outlines the country”s past and present instability and how this impacts and is conceptualised by …
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€28.11
Amin Saikal: Modern Afghanistan
Afghanistan”s recent history is a sad one: Soviet invasion in 1979; Pakistan-backed internal conflict in the 1980s; the Taliban regime; and then the US invasion and the multi-national occupation …
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€30.14
Amin Saikal: Weak States, Strong Societies
Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the previously well-established organisation of world politics has been thrown into disarray. While during the Cold War, the …
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€146.54
