Critical turning points in the Middle East : 1915 - 2015

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Critical turning points in the Middle East : 1915 - 2015

Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, Graeme Herd, Lisa Watanabe

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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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.

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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 Afterword

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