Mullahs Merchants And Militants

Author : Stephen Glain
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466873574
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mullahs, Merchants, and Militants written by Stephen Glain and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand years ago, a vast Arab empire stretched from the Asian steppe across the Mediterranean to Spain, pioneering new technologies, sciences, art and culture. Arab traders and Arab currencies dominated the global economy in ways Western multinationals and the dollar do today. A thousand years later, Arab states are in decay. Official corruption and ineptitude have eroded state authority and created a vacuum that militant Islam has rushed to fill. In Mullahs, Merchants, and Militants, Glain takes us on a journey through the heart of what were once the great Islamic caliphates, the countries now known as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel/Palestine, Iraq and Egypt, to illustrate how a once prosperous and enlightened civilization finds itself at a crossroads between a Dark Age and a New Dawn. As late as a century ago, what we call the Levant was a prosperous trading bloc. By carving the region into proxy states and emirates after the First World War, the Western powers Balkanized and undermined the Levantine economy. That in turn prepared the ground for a regional autocracy that rejected economic openness and religious tolerance, qualities that had made the old Islamic caliphates great. Today the Arab world has opted out of the global economy, with tragic consequences. It is up to the new generation of leaders -- and the Western governments that created the modern Middle East -- to reverse the sclerosis and revive the region.

Author : Stephen Glain
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780719555480
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreaming of Damascus written by Stephen Glain and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates how a once prosperous and enlightened civilization finds itself in decay, with militant Islam rushing to fill the vacuum.

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Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Author : Maryanne A. Rhett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317312767
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global History of the Balfour Declaration written by Maryanne A. Rhett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development and issuance of the Balfour Declaration, the document that set the stage for the creation of the state of Israel, within its global setting. The heart of the book demonstrates that the Declaration developed and contributed to a juncture in a global dialogue about the nature and definition of nation at the outset of the twentieth century. Embedded in this examination are gendered, racial, nationalistic, and imperial considerations. The work posits that the Balfour Declaration was a specific tool designed by the manipulation of these ideas. Once established, the Declaration helped, and hindered, established imperial powers like the British, nascent imperial powers like the Japanese and Indians, and emerging nationalist movements like the Zionists, Irish, Palestinians, and East Africans, to advocate for their own vision of national definition.

Author : Stephen T. Boggs
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456849549
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Social Disorder written by Stephen T. Boggs and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like some ancient god devouring his subjects the modern world economy makes people into devoted consumers everywhere it penetrates and in so doing dissolves the bonds that have made societies viable in the past. Manufacture and trade shift continually from one country and region to another, dispossessing people from the land and sending them to cities in search of opportunities that cease to exist within a single generation. Reviewing what is known about suicide bombers the book evaluates the hypothesis that the resulting moral and psychological crisis causes some individuals to engage in violent attacks upon imagined enemies.

Author : Alex Schmid
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136810404
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research written by Alex Schmid and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new Handbook synthesises more than two decades of scholarly research, and provides a comprehensive overview of the field of terrorism studies. The content of the Handbook is based on the responses to a questionnaire by nearly 100 experts from more than 20 countries as well as the specific expertise and experience of the volume editor and the various contributors. Together, they guide the reader through the voluminous literature on terrorism, and propose a new consensus definition of terrorism, based on an extensive review of existing conceptualisations. The work also features a large collection of typologies and surveys a wide range of theories of terrorism. Additional chapters survey terrorist databases and provide a guide to available resources on terrorism in libraries and on the Internet. It also includes the most comprehensive World Directory of Extremist, Terrorist and other Organizations associated with Guerrilla Warfare, Political Violence, Protest and Organized- and Cyber-Crime. The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research will be an essential work of reference for students and researchers of terrorism and political violence, security studies, criminology, political science and international relations, and of great interest to policymakers and professionals in the field of counter-terrorism.

Author : Alex Peter Schmid
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415411572
Total Pages : 738 pages
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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research written by Alex Peter Schmid and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a monumental collection of definitions, conceptual frameworks, paradigmatic formulations, and bibliographic sources, which is now being revised and updated as a resource for the expanding community of researchers on the subject of terrorism.

Author : Gene W. Heck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742558564
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Worlds Collide written by Gene W. Heck and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that modern Middle Eastern terrorism stems from aborted efforts by Western intelligence agencies to co-opt political Islam as an opposing force against other global ideologies deemed more politically dangerous at the time.

Author : Marcus Noland
Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 0881325333
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arab Economies in a Changing World written by Marcus Noland and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2011 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steffen Jorgensen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0817645535
Total Pages : 718 pages
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Download or read book Advances in Dynamic Game Theory written by Steffen Jorgensen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of selected contributions gives an account of recent developments in dynamic game theory and its applications, covering both theoretical advances and new applications of dynamic games in such areas as pursuit-evasion games, ecology, and economics. Written by experts in their respective disciplines, the chapters include stochastic and differential games; dynamic games and their applications in various areas, such as ecology and economics; pursuit-evasion games; and evolutionary game theory and applications. The work will serve as a state-of-the art account of recent advances in dynamic game theory and its applications for researchers, practitioners, and advanced students in applied mathematics, mathematical finance, and engineering.