Critical turning points in the Middle East
Subtitle: 1915 - 2015
By: Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, Graeme Herd, Lisa Watanabe
Contributors: Herd, Graeme P.; Watanabe, Lisa, 1974-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230251502
Subjects: Politics and government; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: The Historical Legacy; title: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Era; title: The First Critical Turning Point; title: 1915-22; title: The Second Critical Turning Point; title: 1948; title: The Third Critical Turning Point; title: 1967; title: The Fourth Critical Turning Point; title: 1979; title: The Fifth Critical Turning Point; title: 1987-91; title: The Sixth Critical Turning Point; title: 2001; title: Implications for a Potential Critical Seventh Turning Point; title: 2011-15.