The Dilemma of Popular Sovereignty in the Middle East: Power from or to the People

Mr. Kingshuk Chatterjee is an Assisant Professor at the Department of History. Calcutta University and is the Deputy Director, Pakistan and West Asia Studies of the Department. He is associated with the Institute of Foreign Police Studies of the Calcutta University, and looks after its west Asia programme. Chatterjee specialises in the politics of the Middle East and Political Islam in the modern world. He is the author of Ali Shariati and the Shaping of Political Islam in Iran.

Priya Singh is a Project Fellow in the Maulana Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata. She has worked on issues relating to teh problems of security in West Asia with special reference to the foreign policy and leadership aspects of Israel. Some of her articles have been published in the Institute's journal, Asia Annual.