TY - BOOK AU - Al-Rodhan,Nayef R.F. AU - Herd,Graeme P. AU - Watanabe,Lisa AU - هيرد، جرايمي TI - Critical turning points in the Middle East: 1915 - 2015 SN - 978-0-230-25150-2 U1 - 956.04 22E PY - 2011/// CY - Basingstoke, New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Middle East--Politics and government--1945- KW - Middle East--Politics and government--1914-1945 N1 - Notes bibliogr; 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 N2 - "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"-- ER -