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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, Lisa Watanabe.
- Author
- Al-Rodhan, Nayef R. F.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DS63.1 .A375 2011 | Off-site |
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- 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
- Note
- Includes index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780230251502 (hardback)
- 0230251501 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011004879
- OCLC
- ocn692287956
- SCSB-14453863
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library