The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia

Michael Crawford, "The Rise of the Mezzanine Rulers: the New Frontier for International Law," in Foreign Affairs, 89.6, Nov.-Dec. 2010.

Roger Hardy, The Muslim Revolt: A Journey through Political Islam, C. Hurst, 2010.

Thomas Hegghammer, Jihad in Saudi Arabia: Violence and Pan-Islamism since 1979, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Steffen Hertog, Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats: Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia, Cornell University Press, 2009.

Toby Jones, Oil's Domain: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia, Harvard University Press, 2010.

Miriam Lowi, Oil Wealth and the Poverty of Politics: Algeria Compared, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Pascal Ménoret, Thugs and Zealots: The Politicization of Saudi Youth 1965-2007 (forthcoming).

Majid Mohammadi, Political Islam in Post-revolutionary Iran: Shi`i Ideologies in Islamist Discourse, London: I.B. Tauris (forthcoming).