Mehran Kamrava

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The Great Game in West Asia examines the strategic competition between Iran and Turkey for power and influence in the South Caucasus. Meer

The "Resource Curse" in the Persian Gulf systematically address the little studied notion of a "resource curse" in relation to the Persian Gulf by examining the historical causes and genesis of the phenomenon and its consequences in a variety of areas, including human development, infrastructural growth, clientelism, state-building and institutional evolution, and societal and gender relations. Meer

This book is a welcome new edition, which completely updates and revises the very popular first edition, Politics and Society in the Third World. Meer