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The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency

10 best books like The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency (Charles R. Lister): Maldoror, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp, The Battle For Syria: International Rivalry In The New Middle East, We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria, Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War

Maldoror
AuthorComte de Lautréamont
ISBN0811200825
The macabre but beautiful work, Les Chants de Maldoror, has achieved a considerable reputation as one of the earliest and most extraordinary examples of Surrealist writing. It is a long narrative prose poem which celebrates the principle of Evil in an elaborate style and with a passion akin to religious...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN0140437487
Poe found the germ of the story he would develop into ARTHUR GORDON PYM in 1836 in a newspaper account of the shipwreck and subsequent rescue of the two men on board. Published in 1838, this rousing sea adventure follows New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus....
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
AuthorThomas E. Ricks

Thomas Ricks - image from the Bangor Daily News

Fiasco offers a very detailed look into the disaster that has been the US invasion of Iraq. For those of us who have read more than a few books on the subject there is an unavoidable repetition of information seen elsewhere, but there is sufficient...
The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
AuthorJanine Di Giovanni
In May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria. It would mark the beginning of a long relationship with the country, starting with her coverage of the peaceful uprising and continuing as the situation quickly turned into one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawn...
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
AuthorPaul Kennedy
ISBN0679720197
THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED BESTSELLER THAT BOLDLY AND LUCIDLY PUTS OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DILEMMAS INTO THE PERSPECTIVE OF WORLD HISTORY.

"A work of almost Toynbeean sweep... When a scholar as careful and learned as Mr. Kennedy is prompted by contemporary issues to reexamine the great...
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
AuthorMichael Weiss
ISBN1941393578
A revelatory look inside the world's most dangerous terrorist group.

Initially dismissed by US President Barack Obama, along with other fledgling terrorist groups, as a “jayvee squad” compared to al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world by conquering...
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
AuthorBen Rawlence
ISBN1250067634
To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it is a 'nursery for terrorists'; to the western media, it is a dangerous no-go area; but to its half a million residents, it is their last resort.

Situated hundreds of miles from any other settlement,...
The Battle For Syria: International Rivalry In The New Middle East
AuthorChristopher Phillips
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria’s ongoing civil war

Most accounts of Syria’s brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations...
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
AuthorWendy Pearlman
ISBN0062654454
LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL

Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight.

Against...
Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War
AuthorRobin Yassin-Kassab
ISBN0745336221
In 2011, many Syrians took to the streets of Damascus to demand the overthrow of the government of Bashar al-Assad. Today, much of Syria has become a warzone and many worry that the country is on the brink of collapse.
 
Burning Country explores the complicated reality of life in present-day...
Modernity and the Holocaust
AuthorZygmunt Bauman
ISBN0801487196
A new afterword to this edition, "The Duty to Remember, But What?" tackles the difficult issues of guilt and innocence on the individual and societal levels. Zygmunt Bauman explores the silences found in debates about the Holocaust, and asks what the historical facts of the Holocaust tell us about...
Paradigms and Sand Castles: Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics
AuthorBarbara Geddes
ISBN0472068350
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Politics & Society in the Contemporary Middle East
AuthorMichele Penner Angrist
ISBN1588267172
This cutting-edge, and at the same time lively and accessible, examination of the domestic politics of the Middle East has been carefully designed to meet the needs of the university classroom.

Eight thematic chapters introduce the subject and explore the region-wide dynamics of governments...
Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement: What Everyone Needs to Know
AuthorDaniel Byman
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the entire world was introduced to Al Qaeda and its enigmatic leader, Osama bin Laden. But the organization that changed the face of terrorism forever and unleashed a whirlwind of counterterrorism activity and two major wars had been on the scene long before that...
The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions
AuthorPeter Suber
ISBN0415185467
The Case of the Speluncean Explorers, written in 1949 by Lon Fuller, is the first famous fictitious legal case of all time. Describing a case of trapped travellers who are forcd to cannibalize one of their team, it is used on courses in philosophy of law and Jurisprudence to show how their trial upon rescue...
A Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research
AuthorWill H. Moore
ISBN0691159173
Political science and sociology increasingly rely on mathematical modeling and sophisticated data analysis, and many graduate programs in these fields now require students to take a "math camp" or a semester-long or yearlong course to acquire the necessary skills. Available textbooks are written...
War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe
AuthorVictoria Tin-bor Hui
ISBN0521525764
There is a common belief that the system of sovereign territorial states and the roots of liberal democracy are unique to European civilization and alien to non-Western cultures. The view has generated popular cynicism about democracy promotion in general and China's prospect for democratization...
Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence
AuthorRonald Inglehart
ISBN0521609712
This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behavior. These changes are roughly predictable because they can be interpreted on the basis of a revised version of modernization theory presented...
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