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Critical Issues Facing the Middle East : Security, Politics and Economics / edited by J. Russell.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Initiatives in Strategic Studies: Issues and Policies, 2945-7149
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle East--Politics and government.
- Middle East.
- Political science.
- International relations.
- Middle Eastern Politics.
- Political Science.
- International Relations.
- Middle East--Defenses.
- Middle East--Politics and government--21st century.
- Middle East--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Local Subjects:
- Middle Eastern Politics.
- Political Science.
- International Relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Addressing systemic changes in the Middle East's security environment since the Iraq War, prominent experts analyze the challenges these changes pose to US strategy and policy. They examine the causes of profound economic, political and religious transitions and their implications for hopes of reform.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""POLITICAL ECONOMY""; ""2 Long-Term Sources of Instability in the Middle East""; ""3 Reforming the Rentier State: The Imperatives for Change in the Gulf""; ""EMERGING POLITICAL DYNAMICS""; ""4 Oslo�s Success, a Militarized Resistance: Changing Opposition Tactics in the Palestinian Territories""; ""5 Islamization and American Policy""; ""6 Democratic Nation Building in the Arc of Crisis: The Case of the Presidential Election in Afghanistan""; ""REGIONAL SECURITY AND STABILITY""
- ""7 The Arab�Israeli Conflict and Regional Stability""""8 Iraq and the New Regional Security Dynamic""; ""STRATEGY AND POLICY""; ""9 Strategy, Policy, and War in Iraq: The United States and the Gulf in the Twenty-First Century""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611369828
- 9781281369826
- 1281369829
- 9781403983206
- 1403983208
- OCLC:
- 314889499
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