MIDDLE EAST, AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ CONFLICTS: BOOKS ON VARIOUS ASPECTS
Origins of Conflict
Barber, Benjamin R., 1996, Jihad vs. McWorld, New York, NY: Ballentine Books.
Bryant, Raymond L., and Sinead Bailey, 1997, Third World Political Ecology, New York, NY: Routledge.
Huntington, Samuel P., 1996, The Clash of Civilizations: Remaking World Order, New York, NY: Simon and Schuster/Touchstone.
Kaplan, Robert, 1996, The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War, New York, NY: Random House.
Lewis, Bernard, 2002, What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Middle East
Arnove, Anthony, ed., 2002, Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War, Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
Cooley, John, 2001, Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism, New York, NY: Pluto.
Dwyer, Kevin, 1991, Arab Voices: The Human Rights Debate in the Middle East, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Eickelman, Dale F., 2001, The Middle East and Central Asia: An Anthropological Approach, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall (Fourth Edition).
Goodson Larry P., 2001, Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
Hitchcock, Robert K., and Alan J. Osborn, eds., 2002, Africa and the Middle East: Struggles to Survive and Thrive, Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press.
Hoyland, Robert C., 2001, Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam, New York, NY: Routledge.
Iskandar, Adel, 2002, Al Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Lindholm, Charles, 2002, The Islamic Middle East: Tradition and Change, Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
Meiselas, Susan, 1998, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, New York, NY: Random House.
Rashid, Ahmed, 2000, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Islam
Ahmed, Akbar S., 1999, Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World, New York, NY: I.B. Tauris Publishers.
Brown, L. Carl, 2000, Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics, New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Denny, Frederick M., 1987, Islam, San Francisco, CA: Harper and Row, Publishers.
Eickelman, Dale F., and James Piscatori, 1996, Muslim Politics, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Esposito, John L., 2002, Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Juergensmeyer, Mark, 2000, Terror in the Mind of God, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Smith, Huston, 2001, Islam: A Concise Introduction, New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Smith, Jane I., 1999, Islam in America, New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
U.S. Government Policy and American Culture
Abraham, Rick, 2000, The Dirty Truth: George W. Bush's Oil and Chemical Dependency, Houston, TX: Mainstream Publishers.
Blum, William, 2000, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, Monore, MN: Common Courage Press.
Brisard, Jean-Charles, and Guillaume Dasque, 2002, Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden, New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Pres.
Chomsky, Noam, 2001, 9-11, New York, NY: Seven Stories Press.
Duclos, Dennis, 1997, The Werewolf Complex: America's Facination with Violence, New York, NY: Berg.
Hedge, Chris, 2002, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, New York, NY: PublicAffairs.
Moore, Michael, 2001, Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation, New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers.
Vidal, Gore, 2002, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated, New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press.
Terrorism
Alex, George, ed., 1991, Western State Terrorism, New York, NY: Polity-Blackwell.
Carr, Caleb, 2002, The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again, New York, NY: Random House.
Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan, 1987, The `Terrorism' Industry, New York, NY: Pantheon.
Hoffman, Bruce, 1999, Inside Terrorism, New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Laqueur, Walter, 1987, Age of Terrorism, New York, NY: Little, Brown and Co.
Wilkinson, Paul, 1986, Terrorism and the Liberal State, New York, NY: New York University Press.
Anthropology on Warfare and Terrorism
Asad, Talal, ed., 1973, Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press.
Beals, Ralph L., 1969, Politics of Social Research: An Inquiry Into the Ethics and Responsibilities of Social Sciences, Chicago, IL: Aldine.
Bodley, John, 1999, Victims of Progress, Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co.
Downing, Theodore E., and Gilbert Kushner, eds., 1988, Human Rights and Anthropology, Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival, Inc.
Fluehr-Lobban, Carolyn, 2002, Ethics and the Profession of Anthropology: A Dialogue for Professional Conduct, Walnut Creek, PA: AltaMira Press (Second edition).
Horowitz, Irving Louis, 1974, The Rise and Fall of Project Camelot, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Huizer, Gerrit, and Bruce Mannheim, eds., 1979, The Politics of Anthropology, The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton.
Hymes, Dell, ed., 1999/1972, Reinventing Anthropology, New York, NY: Pantheon Books/Random House.
Kurtz, Donald V., 2001, Political Anthropology: Paradigms and Power, Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Montagu, Ashley, 1998, Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race, Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press (Sixth edition).
Pandian, Jacob, 1985, Anthropology and the Western Tradition: Toward an Authentic Anthropology, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, Inc.
Patterson, Thomas C., 2001, A Social History of Anthropology in the United States, New York, NY: Berg.
Sluka, Jeffrey A., ed., 2000, Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Smith, Gavin, 1999, Confronting the Present: Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology, New York, NY: Berg.
Smith, Sheldon, 1993, World in Disorder: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues, Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
Stocking, George W., ed., 1991, Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
Tierney, Patrick, 2001, Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon, New York, NY: W.W. Norton.
Thomas, Jim, 1993, Doing Critical Ethnography, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Vincent, Joan, 1990, Anthropology and Politics: Visions, Traditions, and Trends, Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.
Wakin, Eric, 1992, Anthropology Goes to War: Professional Ethics and Counter Insurgency in Thailand, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
Williams, Emilio, 1986, A Way of Life and Death: Three Centuries of Prussian-German Militarism: An Anthropological Approach Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
Ethnographic Studies
Ben-Ari, Eyal, 1999, Mastering Soldiers: Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Military Unit, New York, NY: Berghahn Books.
Bruinessen, M. van, 1992, Agha, Sheikh and State: The Social and Political Structure of Kurdistan, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books.
Falla, Ricardo, 1994, Massacres in the Jungle: Ixcan, Guatemala (1975-1982).
Gilsenen, M., 1996, Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in an Arab Society Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Keiser, Lincoln, 1991, Friend by Day, Enemy by Night: Organized Vengeance in a Kohistani Community, Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace.
Lavie, Smadar, 1990, The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity under Izraeli and Egyptian Rule, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley, 1996, Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues with Sikh Militants, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Nicolaisen, Johannes, and Ida Nicolaisen, 1997, The Pastoral Tuareg: Ecology, Culture, and Society, New York, NY: Thames and Hudson.
Qleibo, Ali H., 1992, Before the Mountains Disappear: An Ethnographic Chronicle of the Modern Palestinians in Egypt, New York, NY: A Kloreus Book.
Rabinowitze, Dan, 1997, Overlooking Nazareth: The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Sylomovis, Susan, 1998, The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.