With slowing economic growth, a publicly feuding cabinet, and a series of corruption scandals that have paralyzed governance, you might think the last thing India needs is a foreign policy mishap. But there's no other way to characterize New Delhi's full-throated support for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas's dangerous grandstanding at the United Nations in pursuit of statehood.

An Iraq of Its Regions is a unique work that should become the handbook for any serious discussion of Iraqi regionalism.

The problems in Pakistani society underscore a deeper crisis that goes right to the nation's very foundations--a crisis of identity that originates in the late 19th century when the idea of an independent Muslim nation in South Asia first emerged.

A review of Eric Davis's Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity.

Excerpts from a Bradley Lecture by Reason magazine's Charles Paul Freund.

For Pakistan, founded as a homeland for all Indian Muslims, the Sunni-Shiite divide is an awkward subject that many would rather ignore. But the rest of the world needs to pay more attention to this conflict.

Maurice Roumani has created a masterful account of the last decades of the vanished community of Libyan Jews.

The second edition of Beverley Milton-Edwards's textbook on the Middle East, though updated, is as mediocre as the first edition.