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  • Syria Divided

    Patterns of Violence in a Complex Civil War

    by Ora Szekely ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
    The civil war in Syria—which has claimed more than 600,000 lives and displaced over half of the country’s population since 2011—is an enormously complex conflict. The combatants include a wide array of state and nonstate forces, both Syrian and international. Adding to the war’s complexity, its many participants understand and explain the war in a range of different ways. For some, it is a fight ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Syria Divided

    Patterns of Violence in a Complex Civil War

    by Ora Szekely ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
    The civil war in Syria—which has claimed more than 600,000 lives and displaced over half of the country’s population since 2011—is an enormously complex conflict. The combatants include a wide array of state and nonstate forces, both Syrian and international. Adding to the war’s complexity, its many participants understand and explain the war in a range of different ways. For some, it is a fight ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Politics of Militant Group Survival in the Middle East

    Resources, Relationships, and Resistance

    by Ora Szekely ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book compares the performances of four key non-state actors in the Arab-Israeli conflict ecosystem: the PLO, Hamas, Hizbullah, and Amal. It argues that it is not the assets a militant group has, but rather how it acquired them that matters in explaining the variation in these actors' abilities to militarily resist and politically recover from confrontations with far more powerful adversaries. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Insurgent Women

    Female Combatants in Civil Wars

    by Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, Ora Szekely ...
    Why do women go to war? Despite the reality that female combatants exist the world over, we still know relatively little about who these women are, what motivates them to take up arms, how they are utilized by armed groups, and what happens to them when war ends. This book uses three case studies to explore variation in women’s participation in nonstate armed groups in a range of contemporary ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stories from the Field

    A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science

    Edited by Peter Krause, Ora Szekely ...
    What do you do if you get stuck in an elevator in Mogadishu? How worried should you be about being followed after an interview with a ring of human traffickers in Lebanon? What happens to your research if you get placed on a government watchlist? And what if you find yourself feeling like you just aren’t cut out for fieldwork?Stories from the Field is a relatable, thoughtful, and unorthodox guide ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Stories from the Field

    A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science

    Edited by Peter Krause, Ora Szekely ...
    What do you do if you get stuck in an elevator in Mogadishu? How worried should you be about being followed after an interview with a ring of human traffickers in Lebanon? What happens to your research if you get placed on a government watchlist? And what if you find yourself feeling like you just aren’t cut out for fieldwork?Stories from the Field is a relatable, thoughtful, and unorthodox guide ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Defeating ISIS

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    The Islamic State (ISIS) and the Redrawing of the Middle East

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  • A Road Unforeseen

    Women Fight the Islamic State

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