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Last chance : the Middle East in the balance

Title: Last chance : the Middle East in the balance / David Gardner.
Author: Gardner, David, 1952-
Publication: London : I.B. Tauris, 2009.

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xix, 229 pages; 25 cm

Summary

As Barack Obama seeks to chart a new course in American foreign policy, one of the English language media's most respected authorities on the Arab world, David Gardner, addresses the controversial but urgent question: why is the Middle East so dysfunctional? And what can be done about it? Clear-sighted, never flinching from unpalatable truths, Gardner draws on his acute grasp of history and decades of experience covering the region to look at why conflict, despotism and sectarianism continue to flourish in the Arab world whilst as they decline everywhere else. The 'Middle East exception' is, he argues, a product of the West's own making. By supporting tyrants, fueling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and demonizing democratically elected Islamist parties, the West in general but specifically America has incubated a region inherently resistant to economic and political reform, and suppurating with resentment.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Arab political jungle -- The despot in his labyrinth -- The Janus of Islamic revivalism -- The time of the Shia -- Arabia Infelix -- Getting away with murder? -- A naked, poor and mangled peace -- Pax Arabica: the Middle East and the West.

ISBN

9781848850415
1848850417
9781848857438
1848857438

OCLC

ocn318675023
318675023
SCSB-14377917

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Princeton University Library