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From the First World War to the Arab Spring : what's really going on in the Middle East?

Title
From the First World War to the Arab Spring : what's really going on in the Middle East? / M.E. McMillan.
Author
McMillan, M. E.
Publication
  • New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Description
x, 279 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"Offering a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the complex web of wars and proxy wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions that are ripping the Middle East apart, this book puts these events in their historical context and leads readers through the labyrinth that is the new Middle East. This book asks the questions no one else will: why are there so many hereditary heads of state in the Middle East when the Prophet Muhammad did not appoint a successor? Why do the Western countries claim to want democracy in the Middle East yet support dictators? Why did Israel become a democracy and the Arab states did not? Why are there so many wars in the Middle East? And, most importantly, what happened to the hope and optimism of the Arab Spring? M. E. McMillan offers fresh answers to these difficult questions, giving readers a new understanding of what's really going on in the Middle East"--
Series Statement
Middle East today
Uniform Title
Middle East today.
Subject
  • 1900 - 2099
  • Political culture > Middle East
  • Political culture
  • Politics and government
  • Middle East > History > 20th century
  • Middle East > History > 21st century
  • Middle East > Politics and government > 20th century
  • Middle East > Politics and government > 21st century
  • Middle East
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257) and index.
Contents
PART I: THE TANGLED WEB: WHY THE GREAT POWERS OF EUROPE BECAME INVOLVED IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- 1. Sarajevo, Sunday, June 28, 1914 -- 2. The British Empire and the Arab World: Ambition, Austerity and A Class Apart -- 3. The French Empire and the Arab World: From the Crusades to the Civilizing Mission -- 4. The Russian Empire and the Arab World: Religion, Rome and the New Rome -- 5. The German Empire and the Arab World: Family Feuds and Eastern Ambitions -- 6. The Ottoman Empire: How the Arab World Was Won and Lost -- PART II: TOO MANY STRAIGHT LINES ON THE MAP: WHERE, WHEN AND WHY IT STARTED TO GO WRONG -- 7. London, Tuesday, December 21, 1915 -- 8. The Arab World Before the War: The Facts on the Ground -- 9. The Re-Making of the Middle East: Enter the Nation-State -- 10. From Sykes-Picot to the Treaty of Sevres: Betrayals, Backstabbing and Broken Promises -- 11. The Poisoned Legacy and The War's Unanswered Questions -- PART III: ALL OR NOTHING: WHY ALL ROADS LEAD TO JERUSALEM -- 12. Where to Begin? -- 13. Jerusalem: The Temple Mount -- 14. Jerusalem: The Noble Sanctuary -- PART IV: KINGS, COLONELS AND COUPS: WHY THERE IS A DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT IN THE ARAB WORLD -- 15. Cairo, Wednesday, July 23, 1952 -- 16. The Kings, the Colonels and the Political Time Warp: The Return of the Middle Ages -- 17. I am the State: Power, Politics and the Cult of Personality -- 18. The Problem of Absolute Power: From Stability to Stagnation -- PART V: THE SACRED VERSUS THE SECULAR: WHO SPEAKS FOR ISLAM? -- 19. Mecca, Tuesday, November 20, 1979 -- 20. 1979: The View from Tehran -- 21. 1979: Holy War and Unholy Alliances -- 22. The Arab Spring and the Democratic Alternative -- Epilogue Untangling the Web: What Now?
Call Number
JFD 16-204
ISBN
  • 9781137522016
  • 1137522011
  • 9781137522047
  • 1137522046
  • 9781137522030 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781137522023 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015018133
OCLC
930772579
Author
McMillan, M. E., author.
Title
From the First World War to the Arab Spring : what's really going on in the Middle East? / M.E. McMillan.
Publisher
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Middle East today
Middle East today.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257) and index.
Chronological Term
1900 - 2099
Research Call Number
JFD 16-204
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