M. E. McMillan

From the First World War to the Arab Spring: What's Really Going on in the Middle East?

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Offering a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the complex web of wars and proxy wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions that are ripping the Middle East apart, this book puts these events in their historical context and leads readers through the labyrinth that is the new Middle East. This book seeks answers to pressing, contentious questions. Why are there so many hereditary heads of state in the Middle East when the Prophet Muhammad did not appoint a successor? Why do Western countries claim to want democracy in the Middle East, yet support dictators? Why did Israel become a democracy while the Arab states did not? Why are there… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-137-52201-6
EAN: 9781137522016
Produktnummer: 18227209
Verlag: Springer Nature
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 279 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 490 g
Auflage: 2016
Gewicht: 490

Über den Autor

M. E. McMillan is author of Fathers and Sons: The Rise and Fall of Political Dynasty in the Middle East and the acclaimed The Meaning of Mecca: The Politics of Pilgrimage in Early Islam. She has worked as a translator for the United Nations in New York and Geneva.