Visions & Mirages
Subtitle: Middle East in a New Era
By: John Roberts.
Publisher: Mainstream Pub.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Middle East -- History -- 20th century.; Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-; Middle East -- Economic conditions -- 1979-
Other titles: Visions and mirages; Middle East in a new era
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-315) and index.
Table of contents: title: This book was written by John M. Roberts, not John C. de V. Roberts. Visions & Mirages describes the state of the Middle East in the late 20th century in terms of the specific issues and challenges which it faces. These include boundary disputes, water, energy development, political Islam and democracy as well as such well-trodden suibjects as the Israel-Palestine dispute and the consequences of the Iraq War of 1991. It also includes chapters on the region's relations with the US, Europe and Japan.