Critical turning points in the Middle East : 1915 - 2015 /
Al-Rodhan, Nayef R. F.
Critical turning points in the Middle East : 1915 - 2015 / Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, Graeme Herd, Lisa Watanabe. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - xv, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- The Historical Legacy -- The Rise and Fall of the Golden Era -- The First Critical Turning Point -- 1915-22 -- The Second Critical Turning Point -- 1948 -- The Third Critical Turning Point -- 1967 -- The Fourth Critical Turning Point -- 1979 -- The Fifth Critical Turning Point -- 1987-91 -- The Sixth Critical Turning Point -- 2001 -- Implications for a Potential Critical Seventh Turning Point -- 2011-15.
"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"--
9780230251502 (hardback) 9781137311917
2011004879
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Middle East--Politics and government--1945-
Middle East--Politics and government--1914-1945.
956.04 / A.N.C
Critical turning points in the Middle East : 1915 - 2015 / Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, Graeme Herd, Lisa Watanabe. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - xv, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- The Historical Legacy -- The Rise and Fall of the Golden Era -- The First Critical Turning Point -- 1915-22 -- The Second Critical Turning Point -- 1948 -- The Third Critical Turning Point -- 1967 -- The Fourth Critical Turning Point -- 1979 -- The Fifth Critical Turning Point -- 1987-91 -- The Sixth Critical Turning Point -- 2001 -- Implications for a Potential Critical Seventh Turning Point -- 2011-15.
"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"--
9780230251502 (hardback) 9781137311917
2011004879
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Middle East--Politics and government--1945-
Middle East--Politics and government--1914-1945.
956.04 / A.N.C