Critical turning points in the Middle East : 1915 - 2015 / Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, Graeme Herd, Lisa Watanabe.
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TextPublication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.Description: xv, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780230251502 (hardback)
- 9781137311917
- 956.04 22 A.N.C
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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"--
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