Gilles Kepel

Away from Chaos

The Middle East and the Challenge to the West
Übersetzer: Randolph, Henry

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Away from Chaos is a sweeping political history of four decades of Middle East conflict and its worldwide ramifications. Gilles Kepel offers a clear and persuasive narrative of the long-term causes of tension while seamlessly incorporating on-the-ground observations and personal experiences from the people who lived through them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9780231197038
• ISBN-10: 0231197039
• Artikelnr.: 68099539

Autorenporträt

Gilles Kepel is chair of Mediterranean and Middle East studies at École Normale Supérieure in Paris and former special envoy of President Emmanuel Macron of France. He contributes to Al-Monitor and is the author of many acclaimed books, including Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Testament for Syria
Part I. The Barrel and the Koran
1. The Islamization of the Political Order
2. The Onset of International Jihad: Taking on the Near Enemy (1980-1987)
3. The Second Jihadist Phase: Against the Distant Enemy (1998-2005)
4. The Third Jihadist Generation: Networks and Territories (2005-2019)
Part II. From Arab Spring to Jihadist Caliphate
5. The Arab Spring in Context
6. From the Fall of Despots to Societies in Turmoil
7. Sectarianism and Derailed Rebellions: The Shiite-Sunni Fault Line
Part III. After ISIS: Disintegration and Regrouping
8. The Fracturing of the Sunni Bloc
9. The Global Stakes in the Fight for the Levant
Conclusion: Middle Eastern Fault Lines and Global Tectonics
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Index