CONFLICT AND WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST by Bassam Tibi ( 9780312211509 )

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Title:

CONFLICT AND WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST
FROM INTERSTATE WAR TO NEW SECURITY

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0312211503

ISBN 13:

9780312211509

Publisher:

PALGRAVE USA

Pub. date:

28 September, 1998

Edition:

2nd ed. 1998

Pages:

334

Description:

Middle Eastern contemporary history has been a history of the escalation of conflicts to war. The post-Cold War security heralds a shift from inter-state war to the irregular use of force.

Synopsis:

Few studies of Middle East wars go beyond a narrative of events and most tend to impose on this subject the rigid scheme of superpower competition. The Gulf War of 1991, however, challenges this view of the Middle East as an extension of the global conflict. The failure of the accord of both superpowers to avoid war even once regional superpower competition in the Middle East had ceased must give rise to the question: Do regional conflicts have their own dynamic? Working from this assumption, the book examines local-regional constraints of Middle East conflict and how, through escalation and the involvement of extra-regional powers, such conflicts acquire an international dimension. The theory of a regional subsystem is employed as a framework for conceptualising this interplay between regional and international factors in Tibi's examination of the Middle East wars in the period 1967-91. Tibi also provides an outlook into the future of conflict in the Middle East in the aftermath of the most recent Gulf War.

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biography

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Imprint:

Palgrave Macmillan

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Returnable

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