Get the full picture of politics in the Middle East with THE POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST! With a readable, concise, and easy-to-understand writing style, this political science text helps you gain a coherent picture of the region through country case studies and historical review. Case study topics include the influences of tribalism, kinship, and the Islamic faith as well as an understanding of the region's political uprisings, religious significance, and petroleum resources that make it crucially important to the rest of the world.