Away from Chaos : The Middle East and the Challenge to the West / Gilles Kepel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kepel, Gilles, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--Foreign relations--Western countries.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 366 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Middle East is one of the world’s most volatile regions. In recent years, from the optimism and then crushing disappointment of the Arab uprisings through the rise and fall of the Islamic State, it has presented key international security challenges. With the resilient jihadi terror threat, large-scale migration due to warfare and climate change, and fierce competition for control over oil, it promises to continue to be a powder keg. What ignited this instability?Away from Chaos is a sweeping political history of four decades of Middle East conflict and its worldwide ramifications. Gilles Kepel, called “France’s most famous scholar of Islam” by the New York Times, offers a clear and persuasive narrative of the long-term causes of tension while seamlessly incorporating on-the-ground observations and personal experiences from the people who lived through them.From the Yom Kippur/Ramadan war of 1973 to the aftermath of the Arab Spring, Away from Chaos weaves together the various threads that run through Middle East politics and ties them to their implications on the global stage. With keen insight stemming from decades of experience in the region, Kepel puts these chaotic decades in perspective and illuminates their underlying dynamics. He also considers the prospects of emerging from this long-lasting turmoil and for the people of the Middle East and the world to achieve a more stable future.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. A Testament for Syria

ONE. The Islamization of the Political Order

TWO. The Onset of International Jihad Taking on the Near Enemy (1980–1987)

THREE. The Second Jihadist Phase: Against the Distant Enemy (1998–2005)

FOUR. The Third Jihadist Generation Networks and Territories (2005–2019)

FIVE. The Arab Spring In Context

SIX. From the Fall of Despots to Societies in Turmoil

SEVEN. Sectarianism and Derailed Rebellions: The Shiite-Sunni Fault Line

EIGHT. The Fracturing of the Sunni Bloc

NINE. The Global Stakes in the Fight for the Levant

Conclusion. Middle Eastern Fault Lines and Global Tectonics

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-231-55194-0

OCLC:

1163878012