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NATO and the Middle East : the geopolitical context post-9/11 / Mohammed Moustafa Orfy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orfy, Mohammed Moustafa, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 30.
- Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics ; 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization--Middle East.
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- Geopolitics--Middle East.
- Geopolitics.
- European Union countries--Foreign relations--Middle East.
- European Union countries.
- Middle East--Foreign relations--European Union countries.
- Middle East.
- United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.
- United States.
- Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Despite having been active in the region since the mid-1990s, the role of NATO in the Middle East has attracted particular attention since the events of 11th September 2001. This book analyses the limits of NATO's role in the Middle East region and examines whether or not the Alliance is able to help in improving the fragile regional security environment through cooperative links with select Middle Eastern partners. The author reviews the strategic importance of the region from a Western perspective and why it has become a source of instability in world politics, looks at US and inte
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; Introduction: The geopolitical context of NATO's role in the Middle East; 1 Western interests and stability in the Middle East; 2 NATO's new global role and its relevance to the Middle East; 3 NATO's role in the Middle East before 9/11; 4 NATO's role in the Middle East post-9/11; 5 The United States and NATO's role in the Middle East; Conclusion: NATO and security challenges in the Middle East; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-90510-3
- 1-282-88240-6
- 9786612882401
- 0-203-84235-9
- 9780203842355
- OCLC:
- 670411843
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