Conflicts in the Middle East Since 1945

3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-415-44016-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: The Making of the Contemporary World

This third edition of Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945 analyzes the nature of conflict in the Middle East, with its racial, ethnic, political, cultural, religious and economic factors. Throughout the book Peter Hinchcliffe and Beverley Milton-Edwards put the main conflicts into their wider context, with thematic debates on issues such as the emergence of radical Islam, the resolution of conflicts, diplomacy and peace-making, and the role of the superpowers.

The book is brought fully up to date with events in the Middle East, covering, for instance, developments in Iraq in 2006 where a democratically elected government is in place but the insurgency show no sign of coming under control. The analysis of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is also brought up to the present day, to include the election of the Hamas government and the 2006 conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hizballah.

Including a newly updated bibliography and maps of the area, this is the perfect introduction for all students wishing to understand the complex situation in the Middle East, in its historical context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hinchcliffe, Peter

Milton-Edwards, Beverley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Ways of War 2. The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Hostages to History 3. Superpower Conflict in the Middle East: War by Proxy 4. Generation Jihad: Conflict in the Name of Islam? 5. Sectarian Conflict: Lebanon, State without a Nation 6. Ethnic Conflict: The Forgotten Kurds 7. War in the Gulf: Iran and Iraq 1980–1989 8. The Kuwait Crisis: Brother versus Brother 9. The Politics of Conflict and Failure of Peacemaking 10. No End to the Storm: 9/11 and the War in Iraq

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Hinchcliffe, Beverley Milton-Edwards