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Water and power : the politics of a scarce resource in the Jordan River basin
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ISBN: 0521431646 0521558360 051159870X 9780521431644 Year: 1993 Volume: 31 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Why do states in arid regions fail to co-operate in sharing water resources when co-operation would appear to be in their mutual interest? Through in-depth analysis of the history and current status of the dispute over the Jordan River basin, Miriam Lowi explores the answers to these critical questions.


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Oil wealth and the poverty of politics : Algeria compared
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ISBN: 9780511691621 9780521113182 9781107402966 9780511690914 0511690916 9780511692031 051169203X 0521113180 0511691629 1107402964 0511849311 110718830X 1282637002 9786612637001 0511689438 0511690177 0511688687 Year: 2009 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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How can we make sense of Algeria's post-colonial experience - the tragedy of unfulfilled expectations, the descent into violence, the resurgence of the state? Oil Wealth and the Poverty of Politics explains why Algeria's domestic political economy unravelled from the mid-1980s, and how the regime eventually managed to regain power and hegemony. Miriam Lowi argues the importance of leadership decisions for political outcomes, and extends the argument to explain the variation in stability in oil-exporting states following economic shocks. Comparing Algeria with Iran, Iraq, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia, she asks why some states break down and undergo regime change, while others remain stable, or manage to re-stabilise after a period of instability. In contrast with exclusively structuralist accounts of the rentier state, this book demonstrates, in a fascinating and accessible study, that political stability is a function of the way in which structure and agency combine.


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Environment and security: discourses and practices
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ISBN: 0333731670 9780333731673 Year: 2000 Publisher: London Macmillan

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Building Peace in the Middle East

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Building Peace in the Middle East : Challenges for States and Civil Society

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Fresh approaches to peace building in the Middle East are thoughtfully coupled with traditional resources for conflict resolution.

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