Conflict and War in the Middle East : From Interstate War to New Security Paperback / softback
by Bassam Tibi
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:318 pages, XVI, 318 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave USA
- Publication Date:28/09/1998
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- ISBN:9780312211516
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:318 pages, XVI, 318 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave USA
- Publication Date:28/09/1998
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- ISBN:9780312211516