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Critical turning points in the Middle East : 1915-2015
- Title
- Critical turning points in the Middle East : 1915-2015 / Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, Graeme Herd and Lisa Watanabe.
- Author
- Al-Rodhan, Nayef R. F.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xv, 256 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book takes a novel look at the modern Middle East through the prisms of six cascading negative critical turning points. It identifies the seeds of a potential seventh in the collective dignity deficits generated by poor governance paradigms and exacerbated by geopolitical competition for the region's natural resources"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-248) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The historical legacy: the rise and fall of the Golden Era -- Double diplomacy and betrayal -- The Arab defeat -- The Six-Day War and its consequences -- The Iranian Revolution and its aftershock -- A new strategic context in the Middle East -- September 11 and after -- Implications for a potential seventh critical turning point, 2011-15.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-1412
- ISBN
- 9780230251502 (hc.)
- 0230251501 (hc.)
- LCCN
- 2011004879
- OCLC
- YBP 2011004879
- Author
- Al-Rodhan, Nayef R. F.
- Title
- Critical turning points in the Middle East : 1915-2015 / Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, Graeme Herd and Lisa Watanabe.
- Imprint
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-248) and index.
- Added Author
- Herd, Graeme P.Watanabe, Lisa, 1974-
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-1412