The Middle East From The Iran Contra Affair To The Intifada

Author : Robert O. Freedman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815625025
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle East from the Iran-Contra Affair to the Intifada written by Robert O. Freedman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert O Freedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429720378
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Israel Under Rabin written by Robert O Freedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1992 elections represented a watershed in Israeli politics. Returning to power for the first time in fifteen years, the Labor government, under Yitzhak Rabin, has implemented significant changes in foreign policy and domestic politics. Perhaps the most important changes were Israel's recognition of the PLO and the signing of the Declaration of

Author : Nils A. Butenschon
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628293
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizenship and the State in the Middle East written by Nils A. Butenschon and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a response to processes of globalization, regional integration and ethnic conflicts, the study of citizenship has regained new interest among social scientists and legal experts. This approach focuses on the relationship between the state and the people-as individuals and collectivities, citizens and non-citizens-both those living within or outside its borders. Citizenship defines the terms of rights and obligations in a society, regulates political participation and access to public goods and properties. Together, with its companion volume, Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East, this book represents the first systematic critical attempt to interpret the complex nature of Middle East politics from a citizenship perspective. In addition, the book provides both theoretical contributions and case studies, and includes a significant section on Israel and Palestine.

Author : Robert Owen Freedman
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521359764
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow and the Middle East written by Robert Owen Freedman and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1991-01-25 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Freedman provides an exhaustive account of Soviet policy in the Middle East from the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to withdrawal from the country ten years later.

Author : Mehdi Amineh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047422090
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greater Middle East in Global Politics written by Mehdi Amineh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology unites in one volume two studies of the Greater Middle East in global politics – each conceptual and empirical. First, it is a historical-comparative study of politics and societies in selected Greater Middle Eastern countries from Napoleon’s invasion of Ottoman Egypt in 1798 up until today. It addresses development and change in these societies as results of the complex interactions between external developments, the rise and expansion of European industrialized powers, and internal developments, the disintegration of Islamic Empires, their transformation into nation-states, and their efforts to industrialize and modernize. Second, it is an empirical case study of states and societies of the Greater Middle East in global politics, addressing themes such as nationalism, revolution, political Islam, democracy, globalization, regionalism, revolution, war, energy, and conflict and cooperation. The book is comprised of three parts and nineteen chapters. Contributors include: Mehdi Parvizi Amineh, Simon Bromley, Robert M. Cutler, Louisa Dris-Aït-Hamadouche, S.N. Eisenstadt, Femke Hoogeveen, Henk Houweling, B.M. Jain, Mehran Kamrava, Roger Kangas, Fred H. Lawson, Prithvi Ram Mudiam, Nilgun Onder, Wilbur Perlot, Richard Pomfret, Kurt W. Radtke, Mirzohid Rahimov, Eva Patricia Rakel, and Yahia H. Zoubir.

Author : Sonoko Sunayama
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857717251
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syria and Saudi Arabia written by Sonoko Sunayama and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syrian-Saudi relations have been a paradox in inter-Arab politics during the oil era. Commentators and analysts have questioned why the two states pursued mutually conflicting aims in almost every major regional or international foreign policy issue and often propagated contrasting ideological banners over the past thirty years; while both acting as though some form of an alignment existed between them? Here, Sonoko Sunayama explores the logic behind the paradoxical longevity of this cooperative relationship and argues that what ultimately makes Saudis and Syrians so indispensable to each other is the perception and the historical appeal of 'shared identities', be they Arabism or Islam.

Author : Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107062292
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iran-Iraq War written by Williamson Murray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the Iran-Iraq War through the lens of the Iraqi regime and its senior military commanders.

Author : Ray Takeyh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199754101
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guardians of the Revolution written by Ray Takeyh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between the two nations has been antagonistic: revolutionary guards chanting against the Great Satan, Bush fulminating against the Axis of Evil, Iranian support for Hezbollah, and President Ahmadinejad blaming the U.S. for the world's ills. The unending war of words suggests an intractable divide between Iran and the West, one that may very well lead to a shooting war in the near future. But as Ray Takeyh shows in this accessible and authoritative history of Iran's relations with the world since the revolution, behind the famous personalities and extremist slogans is a nation that is far more pragmatic--and complex--than many in the West have been led to believe. Takeyh explodes many of our simplistic myths of Iran as an intransigently Islamist foe of the West. Tracing the course of Iranian policy since the 1979 revolution, Takeyh identifies four distinct periods: the revolutionary era of the 1980s, the tempered gradualism following the death of Khomeini and the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1989, the reformist period from 1997-2005 under President Khatami, and the shift toward confrontation and radicalism since the election of President Ahmadinejad in 2005. Takeyh shows that three powerful forces--Islamism, pragmatism, and great power pretensions--have competed in each of these periods, and that Iran's often paradoxical policies are in reality a series of compromises between the hardliners and the moderates, often with wild oscillations between pragmatism and ideological dogmatism. The U.S.'s task, Takeyh argues, is to find strategies that address Iran's objectionable behavior without demonizing this key player in an increasingly vital and volatile region. With its clear-sighted grasp of both nuance and historical sweep, Guardians of the Revolution will stand as the standard work on this controversial--and central--actor in world politics for years to come.

Author : Alan R. Taylor
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815625438
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Superpowers and the Middle East written by Alan R. Taylor and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents an overview of the actions and policies of the United States and the Soviet Union in the Middle East, revealing how their intense rivalry on a global level led to self-defeating ignorance of important regional considerations.

Author : Judith Caesar
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815628545
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Judith Caesar and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the five years that Judith Caesar taught literature in Saudi Arabia and Egypt during the 1980s, key events took place that changed the face of Middle Eastern politics. Seen through the eyes of many Westerners, the assassination of Anwar Sadat, the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and the Intifada were incidents reflective of a seemingly volatile and aggressive culture. But Caesar saw these events from another perspective. Part memoir and part travelogue, Crossing Borders conveys simply and eloquently the voices of the people and the cultures Caesar came to know during her time in the Arab world. Some of her writings in this book have first appeared in publications such as the Christian Science Monitor. In the tradition of the best writings on foreign places, Caesar's narrative is both an inward as well as an outward journey of discovery. In addition to the political reverberations taking place around her, she writes of the misconceptions generated by both the Saudi and the American press. In "All the News That's Fit to Print", Caesar notes wildly disparate interpretations of news stories when they are translated from one language to another. Caesar also demonstrates an openness in discovering the meaning inherent in the simplest daily tasks. She focuses on what is politically significant in what people do every day, such as drinking tea, shopping, and teaching. Crossing Borders will appeal to people interested in a non-dogmatic description of the Middle East, and to those who love good travel writing.