In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note

Michael Collins Dunn
pp. 7-8
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Revisiting Western Strategies against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

Till F. Paasche, Michael M. Gunter
pp. 9-29
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Game Changers: Kurdish Women in Peace and War

Ofra Bengio
pp. 30-46
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Saddam’s Use of Violence against Civilians during the Iran-Iraq War

Egle Murauskaite
pp. 47-68
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Cementing a State of Belligerency: The 1949 Armistice Negotiations between Israel and Syria

Hilde Henriksen Waage, Petter Stenberg
pp. 69-89
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George Brown and British Policy in the Middle East following the 1967 War

Arieh J. Kochavi
pp. 91-110
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Explaining the Aims, Rise, and Impact of the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham

Gareth Stansfield
pp. 146-151
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Clientélisme et Patronage dans l’Algérie Contemporaine by Mohammed Hachemaoui (review)

Clement M. Henry
pp. 152-153
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Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity ed. by Kamran Scott Aghaie and Afshin Marashi (review)

Rudi Matthee
pp. 153-155
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Squandered Opportunity: Neoclassical Realism and Iranian Foreign Policy by Thomas Juneau (review)

W.A. Rivera
pp. 155-157
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Sold Out? US Foreign Policy, Iraq, the Kurds, and the Cold War by Bryan R. Gibson (review)

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt
pp. 157-159
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Palestinian Refugees and Identity: Nationalism, Politics and the Everyday by Luigi Achilli (review)

Julie Peteet
pp. 159-160
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Force and Fanaticism: Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond by Simon Ross Valentine (review)

Jörg Matthias Determann
pp. 160-161
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Yusif Sayigh: Arab Economist, Palestinian Patriot; A Fractured Life Story ed. by Rosemary Sayigh (review)

Hani A. Faris
pp. 162-164
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Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia following 9/11 by Robert W. Jordan (review)

Bernard Haykel
pp. 164-165
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The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates ed. by Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan (review)

Donna Robinson Divine
pp. 166-167
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The Iran-Iraq War: A Military and Strategic History Williamson Murray and Kevin M. Woods (review)

W. Andrew Terrill
pp. 168-169
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Arab Approaches to Conflict Resolution: Mediation, Negotiation and Settlement of Political Disputes by Nahla Yassine-Hamdan and Frederic S. Pearson (review)

Hilal Khashan
pp. 170-171
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Recent Publications

Michael Kinzer, Lindsey Palmer, Emily Perzanoski, Stephen Reiner, Francis Wilson
pp. 171-176
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Communications

Robert G. Rabil Ph.D., Zoltan Pall, Navid Fozi
pp. 177-180
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Chronology: July 16, 2015 – October 15, 2015

pp. 111-145
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