Vatikiotis MIDDLE EAST END OF EMPIRE TO END OF COLD WAR

ISBN 0415158494

Size = 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall

This volume is an absorbing account of the politics of the Middle East over the last 50 years. Vatikiotis is a leading authority on the region. He brings to his analysis personal acquaintance with the principal protaganists and an exhaustive knowledge of Arabic historical and literary sources. The organising theme is an attempt to make sense of the Middle East in the New World Order. The issues Vatikiotis addresses have strong contemporary interest including: East-West and North-South dichotomies; ethnicity; modernity and democracy to name but a few. The book features many previously unpublished essays, together with others that are now considered seminal contributions. Each has been carefully selected to create a cogent and stimulating introduction to the political landscape of the Middle East.

CONTENTS:

1. Religion and Nationalism: The Study of the Politics of the Arab States (1962)
2. The Middle East: Fashion and Reality (1971)
3. Perceptions of the October (1973) War in the Egyptian and Other Arab Press (1974)
4. The Changing Concerns and Shifting Priorities of Arab Politics (1989)
5. Arab Perceptions of the Gulf Crisis and the Gulf War (1990-1991) (1992)
6. The Middle East After the Gulf War: Problems and Prospects (1992)
7. The Gulf Crisis in Historical Perspective (1993)
8. Jordan's Regional Role in the 1990s (1982)
9. Syria: The New Middle East Power (1985)
10. Egypt's Political Experience: The 1952 Revolution as an Expression of the Historical Heritage (1987)
11. Religion and State in Egypt (1983)
12. A Hesitant Peace: The Egypt-Israel Treaty in Operation (1984)
13. Egypt Between Arabism and Islam (1986)
14. State and Class in Egypt: A Review Essay (1989)
15. The Role of Egypt in the Middle East: A Reformulation of Egyptian State Interest After the Gulf War (1991)
16. The Islamic Threat in Egypt (1993)
17. The New Western Historiography of Modern Egypt (1991)
18. To Cairo and Back, October 1989-January 1990 (1992)
19. Vanishing Cultural Bridges Between East and West (1992)
20. Non-Muslims in Muslim Society: A Preliminary Consideration of the Problem on the Basis of Recent Published Works by Muslim Authors (1984)
21. The Mediterranean in Historical Perspective: Cultural, Ethnic and Religious Diversity (1993)
22. Peace Between Israel and the Arabs by the End of the Century? A Personal Gloss on the Middle East Peace Process (1994)
23. Peaceful Accommodation, Compromise and Reconciliation in a Climate of Zealotry and Unreason (1995)

Notes
Index

284 pages. Hard cover with UNCLIPPED dust jacket. Ex-Library, very much cleaner than usual.

Weight = 800 g

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