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Critical Turning Points in the Middle East : 1915 - 2015 / by N. Al-Rodhan, G. Herd, L. Watanabe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Al-Rodhan, Nayef R. F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle East--History.
- Middle East.
- Asia--Politics and government.
- Asia.
- International relations.
- Middle East--Politics and government.
- Political science.
- Peace.
- History of the Middle East.
- Asian Politics.
- International Relations.
- Middle Eastern Politics.
- Political Science.
- Peace and Conflict Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- History of the Middle East.
- Asian Politics.
- International Relations.
- Middle Eastern Politics.
- Political Science.
- Peace and Conflict Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613124678
- 9781283124676
- 128312467X
- 9780230306769
- 0230306764
- OCLC:
- 728645569
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