Hussein Solomon Books

Focusing on the Middle East North Africa region, this book delves into the multifaceted crises affecting governance, gender, identity politics, environmental challenges, and demographic shifts. It critically analyzes policymakers' responses and proposes alternative solutions to these issues. By balancing regional trends with the unique characteristics of individual countries, the authors employ both quantitative and qualitative methods to provide a comprehensive understanding of the complexities at play in this diverse area.

The book provides a thorough analysis of the value systems held by active Muslims worldwide, utilizing data from the World Values Survey. It highlights the challenges faced by Muslim countries, including a lack of democratic traditions and economic stagnation, alongside a troubling resurgence of conservative values, such as intolerance and anti-Semitism. The authors propose strategies for policymakers and civil societies to foster tolerance, promote democratization, and stimulate economic growth in these regions.

This book analyzes the origins and organizational structure of Islamic State (IS), examining its military triumphs and success in securing new recruits via social media. From its base in Iraq and Syria, IS has spread globally with 17 regional affiliates from Indonesia to Nigeria and sleeper cells in at least 60 countries, capable of atrocities like the Paris attack. To understand the threat of IS, this book explores its organizational structure and underlying ideology, and implications for Western efforts to attack the leadership of IS. The ways IS has grown by swiftly adapting its military strategy, developing creative forms of funding and efforts to win hearts and minds of locals are identified. The author highlights how the competing individual national interests between the Western military alliance and local partners have served to strengthen IS. With its ideology spreading ever further, this book warns of the looming violent confrontation between democratic and Islamist forces. This volume speaks to academics in international relations, security studies and strategic studies, policy-makers and interested parties.