The work of Charles Tripp—professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) for over three decades—has shaped a distinct approach to the study of Middle East politics: an analytical sensibility that is empirically rich, theoretically insightful, and historically sensitive.
Power, Resistance, Ideology and the State brings together contributions from ten political scientists and historians from across Europe, the United States and the Middle East, each of whom takes Tripp’s work as an intellectual point of departure for studying politics in the region. Their contributions focus on four central themes—power, resistance, ideology and the state—that are central in the field of Middle East politics as a means of examining political trends in case-studies ranging from Iran and Iraq to Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Each chapter combines extensive field research and a knowledge of regional politics with methodological and philosophical reflexivity to produce a collection of papers at the cutting edge of contemporary Middle East Studies.
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