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Saudi Arabia and Iraq as friends and enemies : borders, tribes and a history shared

Yaphe, Joshua, author

2024

Overview

Saudi Arabia and Iraq have a shared history, as both friends and enemies at one and the same time, and their growth as modern nation-states must be understood in that joint context. This book establishes a new narrative and timeline for bilateral relations between the two countries, while examining the work of other Arab and Western scholars, in order to excavate the biases underlying so much previous work on this topic. In doing so, it proposes a new way of looking at state formation and boundaries in the Middle East, by showing how the interactions of regional neighbours left an indelible imprint on the domestic politics of one another. The two different visions for managing the border that Saudi Arabia and Iraq developed in the 1920s generated mistrust on both sides, leading to a gradual process of estrangement that lasted through the 1950s and beyond.

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Subject: Politics and Government. / Saudi Arabia Foreign relations Iraq. / Iraq Foreign relations Saudi Arabia. / Saudi Arabia History 20th century. / Iraq History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9781802075427

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DS228.I72 Y37 2024	1	BOOK	WAITINSERT