Al-Rodhan, Nayef R. F.

Critical turning points in the Middle East 1915 - 2015 / [Texte imprimé] : Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, Graeme P. Herd and Lisa Watanabe - Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 - 1 vol. (XV-256 p.) : couv. ill., cartes ; 23 cm

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Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- The Historical Legacy -- The Rise and Fall of the Golden Era -- The First Critical Turning Point -- 1915-22 -- The Second Critical Turning Point -- 1948 -- The Third Critical Turning Point -- 1967 -- The Fourth Critical Turning Point -- 1979 -- The Fifth Critical Turning Point -- 1987-91 -- The Sixth Critical Turning Point -- 2001 -- Implications for a Potential Critical Seventh Turning Point -- 2011-15

"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"--

978-0-230-25150-2

Middle East--Politics and government--1945- Middle East--Politics and government--1914-1945

956.04