Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, Graeme Herd and Lisa Watanabe.
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011
xv, 256 p. :
figures, maps,
21 cm.
includes bibliographical references: notes (p. 215-248) & index.
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.
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"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"--
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
Middle East
Middle East
Politics and government
Politics and government
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1914-1945.
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Al-Rodhan, Nayef R. F.
Herd, Graeme P.
Watanabe, Lisa,
1974-
Iran
University of Tehran. Central Library and Documentation Center