Language and politics in the Middle East and North Africa: the Soviet version

Ryeshyeniye natsional'nogo‐yazikovoy problemi v. SSSR, The Resolution of the National‐Linguistic Problem in the Soviet Union (Moscow: Political Literature Press, 1982; 224 pp.)

Socialism: Nations and National Relations (Moscow: USSR Academy of Sciences, 1982, Problems of the Contemporary World, No. 104),

Yazikovaya situatsiya v stranakh Azii i Afriki, The Language Situation in the Countries of Asia and Africa (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1967; 192 pp.)

Razvitiye yazikov v stranakh Zarubyedzhnogo Vostoka (poslyevoyenniy pyeriod), The Development of Language in the East Beyond the [Soviet] Borders: The Post‐War Period (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1983:208 pp.)

Kul'tura ipolitika v stranakh Azii i Afriki, Culture and Politics in the Countries of Asia and Africa (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1986; 336 pp.).

Gilbert Grandguillaume's Arabisation et politique linguistique au Maghreb (Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1983).

Yazik v politikye i idyeologii strait Zarubyedznogo Vostoka, Language in the Politics and Ideology of the Countries of the East Beyond the [Soviet] Borders (Moscow: Nauka, 1986; 197 pp.).     

Bulgarian studies on the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

Chez les voisins de l'Afghanistan: l'Asie Centrale Soviétique (Moscow: Progress Press, 1983; 174 pp.)

’Islamskiy faktor’ v myedzhdunarodnikh otnoshyeniyakh v Azii, ‘The Islamic Factor’ in International Relations in Asia (Moscow: Nauka, 1987; 192 pp.)

Islam v SSSR: osobyennosti protsyessa syekularizatsii v ryespublikakh Sovyetskogo Vostoka, Islam in the Soviet Union: Characteristics of the Secularisation Process in the Republics of the Soviet East (Moscow: Misl’ Press, 1983; 175 pp.)

Oktay Efyendiyev's Azyerbaydzhankoye gosudarstvo Syefyevidov v XVI vyekye, The Azerbayjanian Government of the Safavids in the 16 Century (Baku: Elm Press for the Institute of History in the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbayjanian Soviet Republic, 1981; 308 pp.)

Kavkaz i Sryednyaya Aziya vo vnyeshnyey politiki Rossii: vtoraya polovina XVIII – 80ye godi XIX v., The Caucasus and Central Asia in the Foreign Policies of Russia: From the 18th Century to the 1880s (Moscow: Moscow University Press, 1984; 328 pp.)

Zapiski o Bukharskom Khanstvye, Notes on the Khanate of Bukhara (Moscow: Nauka Press for the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, 1983; 150 pp.).

M. Annanyepyesov's Ukryeplyeniye Russko‐Turkmyenskikh vzaimootnoshyeniy v XVIII‐XIX vv., The Consolidation of Russo‐Turkmenian Mutual Relations in the 18 and 19 Centuries (Ashkhabad: Ilim Press for the Institute of History in the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmenian Soviet Republic, 1981; 267 pp.).

G. Kh. Saparova's Revolyutsionniy komityet Turkmyenskoy SSR kak Pyerviy visshiy organ gosudarstvyennoy vlasti ryespubliki, The Revolutionary Committee of Soviet Turkmenistan as the First Supreme Body of Political Power of the Republic (Askhabad: Ilim Press for the Institute of History in the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmenian Soviet Republic, 1981; 132 pp.).

I.V. Pogoryel'skiy's Istoriya Khivinskoy ryevolyutsii i Khoryezmskoy Narodnoy Ryespubliki 1917–1924 gg., History of the Revolution in Khiva and the Popular Soviet Republic of Khorezm, 1917–1924 (Leningrad: Leningrad University Press, 1984; 228 pp.).

Kh. Sh. Inoyatov's Narodi Sryednyey Azii v bor'bye protiv intyervyentov i vnutryennyey konterryevolyutsii, The Peoples of Central Asia in the War with the Interventionists and with Domestic Counter‐Revolution (Moscow: Misl’ Press, 1984; 464 pp.).

Basmachyestvo: vozniknovyevniye, sushchnost’, krakh, The Basmachi Movement: Rise, Nature and Downfall (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1981; 246 pp.)

Basmachyestvo: pravda istorii i vimisyel’ fal'sifikatorov, The Basmachi Movement: Historical Truth and Fabrications of the Falsifiers (Moscow: Misl’ Press, 1986; 256 pp.).

M. Syeytakova, entitled Obraz Russkogo chyelovyeka v Turkmyenskoy Sovyetskoy prozye, The Image of the Russian Person in Turkmenian Soviet Prose (Ashkhabad: Ilim Press for the Academy of Sciences of the Turkmenian Soviet Republic, 1981; 57 pp.)

A.K. Rzayev, entitled Azyerbaydzhanskiye vostokovyedi XIX vyeka: ochyerki, Azerbayjanian Orientalists of the 19 Century: Essays (Baku: Elm Press for the Institute of Oriental Studies in the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbayjanian Soviet Republic, 1986; 141 pp.)

Tatarskaya lityeratura i publitsistika nachala XX vyeka, Tatar Literature and Journalism of the Early 20 Century (2nd edition, Kazan: Tatar Book Press, 1983; 352 pp.).

Azat Akhmadullin's Gorizonti Tatarskoy drami: lityeraturno‐kritichyeskiye stat'i, The Horizons of the Tatar Drama: Papers of Literary Criticism (Kazan: Tatar Book Press, 1983; 216 pp.)

R. U. Amirkhanov's Tatarskaya dyemokratichyeskaya pyechat’ (1905–1907 gg.) The Tatar Democratic Press, 1905–1907 (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1988; 190 pp.).     

British decline or the politics of declinism?

Books reviewed in this article:
C. Barnett The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation
P. Clarke and C. Trebilcock (eds) Understanding Decline: Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance
B. Collins and K. Robbins (eds) British Culture and Economic Decline
A. Gamble Britain in Decline: Economic Policy, Political Strategy and the British State
W. Hutton The State We're In
P. Kennedy The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
D. Marquand The Unprincipled Society
S. Pollard The Wasting of the British Economy: British Economic Policy 1945 to the Present
S. Pollard Britain's Prime and Britain's Decline: The British Economy 1870–1914     

Members of the international commission for the history of representative and parliamentary institutions as at 31 march 1984

F.L. Carsten: The First Austrian Republic 1918–1938: A Study Based on British and Austrian Documents. (Gower Publishing 1986, pp. 309; ISBN 0 566 05162 1; £22.50.)

A.R. Peters: Anthony Eden at the Foreign Office 1931–1938. (Aldershot: Gower Publishing and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986; pp. viii, 402; ISBN 0 5660 5117 6; £25.00.)

Brian Girvin and Roland Sturm (eds.): Politics and Society in Contemporary Ireland. (Aldershot: Gower Publishing, 1986; pp. ix, 199; ISBN 0 566 05135 4; £18.50.)

Klaus von Beyme: Political Parties in Western Democracies (Aldershot: Gower Publishing, 1985; pp. xiii, 444; ISBN 0 566 00570 0 £25.00.)

Gordon Smith: Democracy in Western Germany: Parties and Politics in the Federal Republic (3rd edition, Gower, 1986; pp. xi, 243: ISBN 0 566 05267 9 (pb); £6.95.)

George C. Malcher: Poland's Politicized Army: Communists in Uniform (New York, Praeger Publishers, 1984: pp. xvi, 287; ISBN 0 275 91221 3; £34.95.)

I. Crewe and M. Harrop (eds): Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1983 (Cambridge University Press, 1986; pp. vii, 335; ISBN 0 521 30425 3; £25.00.)     

Soviet histories of the Middle East

Istoriografiya stran Vostoka (problyemi novogo vryemyeni), Historiography of the Countries of the East: Problems of Modern Times (Moscow: Moscow University Press, 1978; 256 pp.).

M.S. Ivanov on the Babi revolt in Iran (pp.5–16).

F.M. Atsamba on the historiography of the colonial enslavement of Egypt (pp.95–115)

V.I. Shpil'kova, on the historiography of the Young Turk revolution (pp.234–54).

Istoriografiya i istochnikovyedyeniye istorii stran Azii i Afriki, Historiography and Source Research of the Countries of Asia and Africa, has been published irregularly by Leningrad University Press.

Vladimir Alexandrov, of the Academy of Social Sciences, is entitled A Contemporary World History 1917–1945 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1986; 718 pp.).

The East After the Collapse of the Colonial System (translated from the Russian, Moscow: Nauka Press, 1983; 176 pp.)

Novaya istoriya stran Azii i Afriki, Modern History of the Countries of Asia and Africa, (3rd edition, Moscow: Nauka Press, 1982; 560 pp.,maps).

Novyeyshaya istoriya Arabskikh stran Azii 1917–1985, Contemporary History of the Arab Countries of Asia, 1917–1985 (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1988, 639 pp.).

Kritika burdzhuaznikh kontsyeptsii politiki impyerialistichyeskikh gosudarstv na Blidzhnyem Vostokye. Epokha probudzhdyeniya Azii, A Critique of Bourgeois Conceptions of the Politics of Imperialist Governments in the Near East: The Epoch of the Penetration of Asia (Kiev: Kiev University Press, 1979; 136 pp.)

Politika impyerialistichyeskikh dyerdzhav na Arabskom Vostokye v godi vtoroy mirovoy voyni (1939–1945 gg.)

Erevan: the Armenian Academy of Sciences Press, 1980; 265 pp.

Strani Blidzhnyego i Sryednyego Vostoka v myedzhdunawdnikh otnoshyeniyakh (XIX‐XX vv.), The Countries of the Near and Middle East in International Relations (19th‐20th Centuries). (Tashkent: Fan Press for the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, 1984; 152 pp.)

Borisov's S.Sh.A.: Blidzhnyevostochnaya politika v 70‐yegodi, The United States: Near Eastern Politics in the 1970s (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1982; 216 pp.).

A.I. Osipov's S.Sh.A. i Arabskiye strani 70‐ye‐nachala‐80‐kh godov, The United States and the Arab Countries in the 1970s and Early 1980s (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1983; 230 pp.),

V.A. Shmarov's Osobyennosti politiki impyerializma v Vostochnom Sryedizyemnomor'ye, The Characteristics of Imperialist Politics in the Eastern Mediterranean (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1986; 256 pp.)

Bor'ba SSSR za obyespyechyeniye prochnogo i spravyedlivogo mira na Blidzhnyem Vostokye (1967–1980), The Struggle of the Soviet Union to Secure a Firm and Just Peace in the Near East, 1967–1980 (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1980; 280 pp.).

Rabochyeye dvidzhyeniye v osvobodivshikhsya stranakh Azii i Syevyernoy Afriki: Osobyennosti I tyendyentsii, The Workers Movement in the Self‐Liberating Countries of Asia and North Africa: Characteristics and Tendencies (Moscow: Oriental Literature Press, 1981; 272 pp.).

Natsional'niy vopros v stranakh Vostoka, The National Question in the Countries of the East (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1982; 273 pp.).

Natsional'niy vopros v osvobodivshikhsya stranakh Vostoka, Tha National Question In the Self‐Liberating Countries of the East (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1986; 262 pp.).

Stanovlyeniye natsional'noosvobodityel'nogo dvidzhyeniya v Arabskikh stranakh Azii 1908–1914 gg., The Formation of the National Liberation Movement in the Asiatic Arab Countries, 1908–1914 (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1986; 376 pp).     

The outsider in the novels of Naguib Mahfouz

The novels of Najib Mahfūz, or — to use the more familiar Western spelling of his name, Naguib Mahfouz — offer a progressive study of the outsider in relation to Egyptian middle‐class society. In the early novels it was poverty which set the character outside the gale of a normally functioning community. The poverty of Mahjub in Modern Cairo (al‐Qahira al‐jadida) (1945) and of Hasanayn in A Beginning and an End (Bidaya wa‐nihaya) (1949) is the cause of their isolation in those novels.

The Trilogy (i: Bayn al‐Qasrayn; ii: Qasr al‐shawq: iii: al‐Sukkariyya) (1956–7) offers a large‐scale study of an alienated personality. It is Kamal, who, with the house in Bayn al‐Qasrayn, provides the link between the three generations depicted in the Trilogy. Alienation here is rooted in disappointment and frustration brought about by the mere process of growing up and disillusionment, religious, social and emotional.

The post‐realistic novels after the Trilogy offer bold sketches of a series of outsiders and exiles: the outlaw in The Thief and the Dogs (al‐Liss wa‐1‐kilab) (1961), the disgraced politician in Autumn Quail (al‐Summan wa‐1‐kharif) (1962) , and a group of social and political exiles in a small pension called ‘Miramar’ in Miramar (1967).

In the late seventies Mahfouz was still writing short novels on outsiders, but the wheel has come full circle. They are the young men who have obtained their degree, got the standard government or public sector jobs, been accepted by the sweetheart and her family and are formally engaged, but still cannot find themselves a place in a society highly inflated with petrol dollars and mushrooming wealth, where it is near impossible for a young couple to afford the huge sums necessary for any new accommodation.     

Some studies in Russian on the Ottoman empire

Turcologica 1986, a Festschrift presented to A.N. Kononov on his eightieth birthday (Leningrad: Nauka Press for the Institute of Oriental Studies in the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, 1986; 303 pp.).

I. Ye, and Yu A. Pyetrosyan, on the periodization of the ‘era of reforms’ in the Ottoman Empire (pp.219–24).

Yuri A. Pyetrosyan, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet (now Russian) Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, also contributes a brief, but useful paper on the Turkish emigrant press in the early twentieth century (pp.225–9).

Kh. M. Ibragimbyeyli and N.S. Rashba, entitled Osmanskaya Impyeriya v pyervoy chyetvyerti XVII vyeka: sbornik dokumyentov i matyerialov, The Ottoman Empire in the First Quarter of the 17th Century: A Collection of Documents and Materials (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1984; 214 pp.).

A.A. Vitol's Osmanskaya Impyeriya (nachalo XVIII v.), The Ottoman Empire at the Beginning of the 18th Century (Moscow: Nauka Press for the Institute of Oriental Studies in the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, 1987; 136 pp.).

V.P. Grachyev's Balkanskiye vladyenya Osmanskoy Impyerii na rubyedzhye XVIII‐XIX vv. (vnutryennyeye polodzhyeniye, pryedposilki natsional'no‐osvobodityel'‐nikh dvidzhyeniy), The Balkan Domains of the Ottoman Empire at the Meeting Point of the 18th and 19th Centuries: Internal Situation, the Preconditions of National Liberation Movements (Moscow: Nauka Press for the Institute of Slavonic and Balkan Studies in the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, 1990; 200 pp.).

M.T. Boddzholyan has written on Ryeformi 20–30‐kh gg. XIX vyeka v Osmanskoy Impyerii, The Reforms of the 1820s and 1830s in the Ottoman Empire (Erevan: Academy of Sciences of Soviet Armenia Press, 1984; 156 pp.).

Osmanskaya Impyeriya: systyema gosudarstvyennogo, upravlyeniya, sotsial'niye i etnoryeligiozniye problyemi. Sbornik statyey, The Ottoman Empire: System of Government, Administration, Social and Ethno‐Religious Problems. A Collection of Articles (Moscow: Nauka Press for the Institute of Oriental Studies in the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, 1986; 253 pp.).

Osmanskaya Impyeriya: gosudarstvyennaya vlast’ i sotsial'no‐politichyeskaya struktura, The Ottoman Empire: State Power and Socio‐Political Structure (Moscow: Nauka Press for the Institute of Oriental Studies in the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, 1990; 338 pp.).     

Institutionalising the 'eternal return': textbooks and the study of British politics

Anthony Birch, The British System of Government
Ian Budge and David McKay (eds), The Developing British PoliticalSystem: the 1990s
Ian Budge, Ivor Crewe, David McKay and Ken Newton, The NewBritish Politics
Bill Coxall and Lynton Robins, Contemporary British Politics
John Dearlove and Peter Saunders, Introduction to British Politics
Patrick Dunleavy, Andrew Gamble, Ian Holliday and Gillian Peele (eds), Developments in British Politics 5
Bill Jones, Andrew Gray, Dennis Kavanagh, Michael Moran, Philip Nortonand Anthony Seldon, Politics UK
Dennis Kavanagh, British Politics: Continuities and Change
John Kingdom, Government and Politics in Britain: An Introduction
John P. Mackintosh, The Government and Politics of Britain
R. M. Punnett, British Government and Politics
Robert Pyper and Lyton Robins (eds), Governing the UK in the 1990s     

The Martin Presence: Jean Martin and the Making of the Social Sciences in Australia

The Martin Presence: Jean Martin and the Making of the Social Sciences in Australia. By Peter Beilharz, Trevor Hogan and Sheila Shaver (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2015), pp.xiv + 293. AU$39.99 (pb).     

Power-sharing and its discontents: Dysfunctional constitutional arrangements and the failure of the Annan plan for a reunified Cyprus

B.A. Litvinskiy and N.M. Akramov's Alyeksandr Alyeksandrovich Syemyonov (nauchno‐biografichyeskiy ochyerk) (Alexander Alexandrovich Syemyonov: a scholarly‐biographical essay) (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1971; 180 pp.)

I.K. Yenikolopov's Griboyedov i Vostok (Griboyedov and the East) (2nd edition, Erivan: Ayastan Press, 1974; 160 pp.)

Sofya Gvyelyesiani's Vostokovyed Gyeorgiy Tsyeryetyeli (The Orientalist Gyeorgiy Tsyeryetyeli) (Tiflis: Myerani Press, 1976; 100 pp.)

A.V. Sagadyeyev's Ibn Rushd (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1973; 208 pp.)

I. Braginskiy's 12 miniatur: ot Rudaki do Dzhami (12 miniatures: from Rudaki to Jami) (2nd edition, Moscow: Khudodzhyestvyennaya Lityeratura, 1976; 304 pp.)

Tawfik al‐Hakim: Biobibliografichyeskiy ukazatyel’ (Tawfiq al‐Hakim: a bio‐bibliographical guide) (Moscow: Kniga Press, 1968; 72 pp.)

Dzhamal'‐Zadye: Biobibliografichyeskiy ukazatyel’ (Jamal‐Zade: a biobibliographical guide) (Moscow: Kniga Press, 1972; 94pp.)

Yu. Orzms'yan's Abd‐al‐Kadir (Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1968; 176 pp.).

A. Agarishyev's Gamal’ Abdel’ Nasyer (Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1975; 192pp.).

Problyemi Yegipyetskoy ryevolyutsii (The problems of the Egyptian revolution) (Moscow: Myedzhdunarodniye Otnoshyeniya, 1979; 256 pp.).

I. Nurullin's Tukay (Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1977; 240 pp.).

A.K. Rzayev entitled Akhundov (Moscow: Yuridichyeskaya Lityeratura, 1980; 72 pp.)

I. Ye. Fadyeyeva's Midkhat Pasha: dzhizn i dyeyatyel'nost’ (Midhat Pasha: life and activity) (Moscow: Nauka Press for the Institute of Oriental Studies in the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, 1977; 168 pp.)     

Writings on the margins: Welsh politics

Books reviewed in this article:
Andrews, L., Wales Says Yes
Davies, R., Devolution: A Process not an Event
Osmond, J., New Politics in Wales
Osmond, J. (ed.), The National Assembly Agenda
Taylor, B. and Thomson, K., Scotland and Wales: Nations Again?
Day, G. and Thomas, D. (eds), Contemporary Wales: An Annual Review of Economic and Social Research     

Democratization in Gulf Monarchies: A New Challenge to the GCC

Dr. Kéchichian is the author of Succession in Saudi Arabia (Palgrave, 2001; Beirut and London: Dar Al Saqi, 2003 [in Arabic]); Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy (RAND, 1995); and coauthor, with R. Hrair Dekmejian, of The Just Prince: A Manual of Leadership (London: Saqi Books, 2003). His most recent study, Succession in Arab Monarchies , written under a Smith Richardson Foundation grant, is forthcoming in 2005.     

The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung,the Settlers and the Protectors

The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors . By Bain Attwood (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2017), pp.xiv + 225. AU$29.95 (pb).     

A tale of two deserts: the sahara and the gobi

The Raiders of the Sarhad. By Brigadier‐General R. E. H. Dyer, C.B. London: H. F. and G. Witherby. 1921. Price: 15s. net.

Two Years in Kurdistan: Experiences of a Political Officer, 1918–1920. By Captain W. E. Hay. (Sidgwick and Jackson.)

An Administrator in the Making: James Saumarez Mann, 1893–1920. Edited by his Father. Longmans, Green and Co. 1921. Price: 15s. net.     

Building the country or rescuing the people: Ben-Gurion's attitude towards mass Jewish immigration to Israel in the mid-1950s

In mainstream scholarship, David Ben-Gurion is described as one of the main supporters and primary advocates of the policy of encouraging mass Jewish immigration to Israel (aliya) in the 1950s. The Zionist movement had two different motives for supporting aliya: Diaspora Jews’ need for a safe haven (which would require mass aliya), and the need to build a solid and stable Jewish society in mandatory Palestine/Israel (which would require selective aliya).

When Ben-Gurion, in the 1940s, came to favour mass aliya, he did so because of the immigrants’ potential contribution to the attainment of statehood and then the independent state.

In the first years after independence, when entire communities immigrated to Israel, they included old and infirm people who did not fit the image of the pioneers of pre-state aliya. Nevertheless, for Ben-Gurion, their demographic contribution outweighed the burden of their absorption. By 1952, he had changed his mind and became one of the strongest supporters of selective immigration. He continued to support selectivity even when, in 1955, the safety of Moroccan Jews and their freedom to emigrate was in jeopardy. Ben-Gurion's attitude to aliya from Morocco, in the shadow of the Czech-Egyptian arms deal, reflected his priority – a strong and secure Israel.     

Some recent additions to the library

Richard Calland &; Paul Graham (Eds), IDASA's Democracy Index — Democracy in the Time of Mbeki, Cape Town: Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Cape Town, 2005, R150, 252 pages.

Pieter Wolvaardt, A Diplomat's Story: Apartheid and Beyond, 1969–1998, South Africa: Galago Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1–919854–15–0, R225, 336 pages.

Greg Mills, The Security Intersection: The Paradox of Power in an Age of Terror, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2005, 321 pages.

Hugh Pope, Sons of the Conquerors. The Rise of the Turkic World, New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2005. ISBN 1–58567–641–1. 413 pages.     

The Ottoman Ceremony of the Royal Purse

Churchill's Secret War: Diplomatic Decrypts, the Foreign Office and Turkey by Robin Denniston. Stroud: Sutton Publishing; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Pp.xv + 208, bibliography, index, illustrations. £25.00 (hardback).

The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans‐state Ethnic Conflict by Kemal Kiri?ci and Gareth Winrow. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xvi + 237, bibliography, index. £32.50 (hardback); £17.50 (paperback).

The Army and the Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran, 1910–1926 by Stephanie Cronin. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1997. Pp.vii + 296, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. £39.50.

Religious Radicalism in the Greater Middle East edited by Bruce Maddy‐Weitzman and Efraim Inbar. No.4 in the Cass Series on Political Violence. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp viii + 264, index. £29.50 (hardback); £12.99 (paperback).

Indigo in the Arab World by Jenny Balfour‐Paul. London: Curzon Press, 1997. Pp.xx + 283, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. £45.00.

Languages of Dress in the Middle East edited by Nancy Lindisfarne‐Tapper and Bruce Ingham. London: Curzon Press, 1997. Pp.196. £12.99.     

Thailand's Theory of Monarchy: The Vessantara Jataka and the Idea of the Perfect Man

Thailand's Theory of Monarchy: The Vessantara Jataka and the Idea of the Perfect Man . By Patrick Jory (New York: SUNY Press, 2016), £62.93 (hb), £17.75 (pb).     

Some Soviet works on foreign relations in the Middle East

V.A. Shmarov, entitled Osobyennosti politiki impyeraylizma v Vostochnom Sryednyezyemnomor'ye, The Characteristics of Imperialism's Politics¹ in the Eastern Mediterranean (Moscow, Nauka Press, 1986; 256pp.).

I.I. Ivanova, Turyetsko‐Arabskiye otnoshyeniya i ikh myesto vsistyemye myedzhdunarodnikh svyazyey na Blidzhynem Vostokye (1945–1983) Turkish‐Arab Relations and Their Place in the International Relations System of the Near East, 1945–83 (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1985; 150pp.).

SSSR i Turtsiya 1917–1979, The Soviet Union and Turkey, 1917–1979 (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1981; 320pp.)

A. Shvyedov and V. Rumantsyev, is entitled Sovyetsko‐Liviyskiye otnoshyeniya Soviet‐Libyan Relations (Moscow: Progress Press, 1986: 188pp.).

al‐'Alaqat al‐Sufyatiyya al‐Libiyya (Moscow: Dar al‐Taqaddum, 1986; 213pp.).

B.M. Potskhvyeriya's study is entitled Vnyeshnaya politika Turtsii v 60‐kh – nachalye 80‐kh godov XX v., The Foreign Politics of Turkey in the 1960s – Early 1980s (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1986; 296pp.)

Vnyeshnaya politika Turtsii poslye vtoroy mirovoy voyni, The Foreign Politics of Turkey After the Second World War (Moscow: Nauka Press, 1976; 307pp.).

Vnyeshnaya politika stran Blidzhnyego i Sryednyego Vostoka, The Foreign Politics of the Near and Middle East (Moscow: International Relations Press, 1984; 288pp.)     

The War with the Ottoman Empire: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War Volume 2

The War with the Ottoman Empire: The Centenary History of Australia and the Great War Volume 2. By Jeffrey Grey (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. x + 238. 16 Maps. AU$59.95 (cloth).