Introduction: The international dimensions of ethnic conflict in the Middle East / Leonard Binder -- Power, legitimacy, and peace-making in Arab coalitions : the new Arabism / Shibley Telhami -- The assembled state : communal conflicts and government control in Iraq / Adeed Dawisha -- Syria : creating a national community / Moshe Maʻoz -- From consociationalism to the public sphere : recent evidence from Lebanon / Michael C. Hudson -- Religious and ethnic conflict in Sudan : can national unity survive? / Gabriel Warburg -- Iran's revolutionary politics : nationalism and Islamic identity / David Menashri -- Subordinate communities and the utility of ethnic ties to a neighboring regime : Iran and the Shiʻa of the Arab states of the Gulf / Michael Herb -- Toward a social analysis of Islamist movements / Gilles Kepel.

Ethnic and religious strains in Turkey : internal and external implications / Ian O. Lesser -- Turkey's restive Kurds : the challenge of multiethnicity / Graham E. Fuller -- New states and new identities : religion and state building in central Asia / Martha Brill Olcott -- Al-Muhajirin w-al-Ansar : Hashemite strategies for managing a communal identity in Jordan / Laurie A. Brand -- Hamas : strategy and tactics / Muhammad Muslih -- Hegemony and the riddle of nationalism / Ian S. Lustick -- Afterthoughts / Leonard Binder.