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The East Moves West: India, China, and Asia's Growing Presence in the Middle East
During a period when established Western economies are treading water at best, industry and development are exploding in China and India. The world's two most populous nations are the biggest reasons for Asia's growing footprint on other global regions. The impact of that footprint is especially important in the Middle East, given that region's role as an economic and geopolitical linchpin.
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How China's rise is changing the Middle East
This book explores the extent to which China's rise is changing the economic, security, political and social-cultural aspects of the Middle East - a region of significant strategic importance to the West and of increasing importance to the East. With its growing dependence on Middle East oil and gas, China has more at stake in this region than any other Asian power and, not surprisingly, has begun increasing its engagement with the region, with profound implications for other stakeholders. The book charts the history of China's links with the Middle East, discusses China's involvement with each of the major countries of the region, considers how China's rise is reshaping Middle Easterners' perceptions of China and the Chinese people, and examines the very latest developments.
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A Lost Peace
In A Lost Peace
, Galen Jackson rewrites an important chapter in the
history of the middle period of the Cold War, changing how we think
about the Arab-Israeli conflict.
During the June 1967 Middle East war, Israeli forces seized the
Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the Golan Heights
from Syria, and the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan. This
conflict was followed, in October 1973, by a joint Egyptian-Syrian
attack on Israel, which threatened to drag the United States and
the Soviet Union into a confrontation even though the superpowers
had seemingly embraced the idea of détente. This conflict
contributed significantly to the ensuing deterioration of US-Soviet
relations.
The standard explanation for why détente failed is that the
Soviet Union, driven mainly by its Communist ideology, pursued a
highly aggressive foreign policy during the 1970s. In the Middle
East specifically, the conventional wisdom is that the Soviets
played a destabilizing role by encouraging the Arabs in their
conflict with Israel in an effort to undermine the US position in
the region for Cold War gain.
Jackson challenges standard accounts of this period,
demonstrating that the United States sought to exploit the Soviet
Union in the Middle East, despite repeated entreaties from USSR
leaders that the superpowers cooperate to reach a comprehensive
Arab-Israeli settlement. By leveraging the remarkable evidence now
available to scholars, Jackson reveals that the United States and
the Soviet Union may have missed an opportunity for Middle East
peace during the 1970s.
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The Middle East : U.S. policy, foreign assistance and key issues
The Middle East in 2021 faces continued political instability, civil wars, terrorist threats, economic crises, the proliferation of unconventional weapons, external military intervention, and the ongoing spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). It remains to be seen whether the territorial defeat of the Islamic State (IS) organization and the recent diplomatic normalization agreements brokered by the Trump Administration between Israel and several Arab states augur improved regional stability. U.S. stated policy goals have remained broadly consistent across Administrations: deter interstate conflict, counter terrorism, ensure the global flow of energy resources, and preserve U.S. influence in the face of rival power competition.
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The international politics of the middle east
The international politics of the Middle East fills a major gap in the field of middle eastern political studies by combining international relations theory with concrete case studies. It will be of immense benefit to students of middle eastern politics, international relations and comparative politics. The book begins with an overview of the rules and features of the middle east regional system - the arena in which the local states, including Egypt, Turkey, Israrel and Arab states od Syria, Jordan and Iraq, operate. It goes on to analyse foreign policy-making in key states, illustrating how systematic determinants contrain this policy-making, and how these contraints are dealt with in distinctive ways depending on particular domsetic features of the individual states. Finally, the book goes on to look at the outcomes of state policies by examining several major conflicts including the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Gulf War, and the system of regional alignment. The book assesses the impact of international pentrartion in the region, including the hsitorica reasons behind the formation of the regional state system. It also analyses the continued role of the external great powers, such as the United States and the former Soviet Union and explains the process by which the region has besome incorporated into the global capitalist market.
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Rome and the Near Eastern kingdoms and principalities, 44-31 BC : a study of political relations during civil war
The study presents a critical examination of the political relations between Rome and Near Eastern kingdoms and principalities during the age of civil war from Caesar's death in 44 until the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.
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