The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East

Olivier Roy

March, 2008
Cloth, 160 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70032-0
$24.95

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Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Olivier Roy is research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). A world authority on Islam and politics, he currently lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris and has acted as consultant to the French Foreign Ministry since 1984. His books with Columbia University Press are Secularism Confronts Islam; Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah; and, with Mariam Abou Zahab, Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection.

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