Unmaking of the Middle East

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-520-26170-9
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 484 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Written for those who want to know more about the Middle East than the mainstream media is willing or able to tell, this book begins by examining a question that has been asked by numerous commentators since September 11, 2001: “Why do they hate us?" Jeremy Salt offers the background essential for understanding the Middle East today by chronicling the long and bloody history of Western intervention in Arab lands. In lucid detail, he examines the major events that have shaped the region—ranging from the French in Algeria and the British in Egypt in the nineteenth century to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and to the continuing war in Iraq. Linking all of these together, Salt paints a damning picture of a sustained campaign by Western powers to dominate the Middle East by whatever means necessary. Throughout, he emphasizes the human cost of the policies put in place to preserve "Western interests" or in the name of bringing civilization, democracy, or freedom to the region. Making use of extensive research in U.S. and British archives that reveals what politicians were deciding behind closed doors, and why, this is a book that will change the way we see the Middle East.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salt, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

PART I. “WHY DO THEY HATE US?”
1. Civilization and Its Contradictions
2. Science and Barbarism

PART II: SACRED TRUSTS
3. Ottoman Breakdown
4. Exit the Sharif
5. Small Wars in Iraq
6. Double Colonialism in Palestine
7. Civil War along the Potomac

PART III. THE AMERICAN ASCENDANCY
8. The “Tripartite Aggression”
9. My Enemy's Special Friend
10: LBJ's Other War
11. Disabling Lebanon

PART IV. THE BUSH WARS
12. Into the Gulf
13. George the Son
14. The Long Campaign

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremy Salt teaches in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Ankara and is author of Imperialism, Evangelism, and the Ottoman Armenians, 1878-1896.