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Social Protests and Nation-Building in the Middle East and Central Asia  

Development Perspective Series

No.1

A new series in English for multi-faced studies of developing economies, principally based on a collective research of a specific subject.


Development Perspective Series Social Protests and Nation-Building in the Middle East and Central Asia ■ Edited by Keiko Sakai Foreword by Dr. Hiroshi Kato
■ Price: 2,625yen (w/o tax 2,500yen)
■ A5判
■ 236 pp.
■ Published in 2003
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CONTENTS

Acknowledgement
List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction


Part I. General Perspectives: those lay behind the movements


1. Maher al-CHARIF

How Did the Disappearance of the Religious Reform Have a Part in the Stumble of the Arab Renaissance Projects?



2. El-Sayed YASSIN

The Cultural Crisis and the Future of the Arab Civil Society:
The Debate of Enlightenment and Liberalization


3. Tomohiko UYAMA

Why Are Social Protest Movements Weak in Central Asia?:
Relations between the State and Peoplein the Era of Nation-Building and Globalization


4. Victor A. SHNIRELMAN

Inventing the Alans:
Origins of the Peoples, and Politics in the Northern Caucasus


Part II. Case Studies in the Middle East and Central Asia:who move, who retreat?


5. Yoshiko KURITA

The Dynamics of Nation-Building in the Sudan


6. Chika OBIYA

The Basmachi Movement as a Mirror of Central Asian Society in the Revolutionary Period


7. Hiroyuki AOYAMA

Contradiction between Thoughts and Realities in Arab Nationalism:
Wahīb al-Ghānim’s Contribution to the Developmentof the Arab Ba‘th Movement


8. Shintaro YOSHIMURA

Reza Shah’s Changing Dictatorship and Protest Movements in Iran, 1925-1941


9. Keiko SAKAI

The 1991 Intifādah in Iraq:
Seen through Analyses of the Discourses of Iraqi Intellectuals


10. Saodat OLIMOVA

Islam and Construction of a National State in Central Asia:
Islamic Movement in Tajikistan


11. Natsuko OKA

Nationalities Policy in Kazakhstan:
Interviewing Political and Cultural Elites

Index