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The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval

The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval

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The US invasion of Iraq and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11 have not reshaped the Middle East as predicted, but this book offers insights into the region's characteristics, continuities, and discontinuities. It explores six themes, including sectarianism, state sovereignty, Saudi-Iranian competition, and the Israel-Palestine conflict, and includes individual country studies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 18 May 2021
Publisher: Stanford University Press


The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings of 2010–11 left indelible imprints on the Middle East, yet these events have not reshaped the region as pundits once predicted. With this comprehensive volume, top experts on the region offer wide-ranging considerations of the characteristics, continuities, and discontinuities of the contemporary Middle East, addressing topics from international politics to political Islam, hip-hop to human security.

This book engages six themes to understand the contemporary Middle East: the spread of sectarianism, abandonment of principles of state sovereignty, the lack of a regional hegemonic power, increased Saudi-Iranian competition, decreased regional attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, and fallout from the Arab uprisings. With analysis from historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists, and up-to-date discussions of the Syrian Civil War, impacts of the Trump presidency, and the 2020 uprisings in Lebanon, Algeria, and Sudan, this book will be an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the current state of the region.

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings of 2010–11 left indelible imprints on the Middle East, yet these events have not reshaped the region as pundits once predicted. With this comprehensive volume, top experts on the region offer wide-ranging considerations of the characteristics, continuities, and discontinuities of the contemporary Middle East, addressing topics from international politics to political Islam, hip-hop to human security.

This book engages six themes to understand the contemporary Middle East: the spread of sectarianism, abandonment of principles of state sovereignty, the lack of a regional hegemonic power, increased Saudi-Iranian competition, decreased regional attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, and fallout from the Arab uprisings. With analysis from historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists, and up-to-date discussions of the Syrian Civil War, impacts of the Trump presidency, and the 2020 uprisings in Lebanon, Algeria, and Sudan, this book will be an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the current state of the region.

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the Arab uprisings of 2010–11 left indelible imprints on the Middle East, yet these events have not reshaped the region as pundits once predicted. With this comprehensive volume, top experts on the region offer wide-ranging considerations of the characteristics, continuities, and discontinuities of the contemporary Middle East, addressing topics from international politics to political Islam, hip-hop to human security.

This book engages six themes to understand the contemporary Middle East: the spread of sectarianism, abandonment of principles of state sovereignty, the lack of a regional hegemonic power, increased Saudi-Iranian competition, decreased regional attention to the Israel-Palestine conflict, and fallout from the Arab uprisings. With analysis from historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists, and up-to-date discussions of the Syrian Civil War, impacts of the Trump presidency, and the 2020 uprisings in Lebanon, Algeria, and Sudan, this book will be an essential guide for anyone seeking to understand the current state of the region.


Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781503615069

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