Conflict and Insurgency in the Contemporary Middle East (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rubin, Barry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book surveys the main conflicts and insurgencies in recent Middle East history, focusing mainly on the period since the 1980s and taking a historical-analytical approach.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134048960
• Artikelnr.: 38251821

Autorenporträt

Barry Rubin is Director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center of the Interdisciplinary University in Herzliya, Israel. He is also editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, and of Turkish Studies. He has written or edited more than 50 books on Middle East Politics and history, including most recently The Truth about Syria, and The Long War for Freedom; Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography; and The Tragedy of the Middle East. He is editor of the Global Survey of Islamism; the three volume Political Islam (also published by Routledge) and the Israel-Arab Reader (now in its seventh edition).

Inhaltsangabe

1. What Do Middle Eastern Armies Do? Barry Rubin 2. Why Arab Armies Lose
Wars but Defeat Insurgencies Norvell B. DeAtkine 3. The Iran-Iraq War: Will
Without Means Joana Dodds and Benjamin Wilson 4. The Lessons of the
Jihadist Insurgency in Saudi Arabia Hassan Mneimneh 5. Egypt's Civil War
Barry Rubin 6. Terrorism as a Military Factor: The Israeli-Palestinian
Peace Process Era, 1993-2000 Boaz Ganor 7. Lebanon 2006: Unfinished War
Jonathan Spyer 8. Lebanon's Militia Wars Antoine Badran 9. The
Soviet-Afghan War: A Superpower Mired in the Mountains Lester Grau 10. The
Morocco-Polisario War for Western Sahara, 1975-1991 Jacob Mundy 11.
Islamism and Insurgency in Post-Independence Algeria Yahia Zoubir 12. Iraq
and U.S. Military Doctrine William McCallister 13. Innovation and War: The
U.S. Military and the Iraq Insurgency James Russell