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The Decline Of The Soviet Union And The Transformation Of The Middle East

By: David Howard Goldberg,Paul Marantz,Stephen Page,Stephen Gotowicki

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The Decline Of The Soviet Union And The Transformation Of The Middle East

By: David Howard Goldberg,Paul Marantz,Stephen Page,Stephen Gotowicki

For more than three decades, the Soviet Union was a major force in the Middle East, and superpower rivalry exacerbated many of the conflicts endemic to the region. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union have fundamentally altered the rules of the game in Middle East politics, producing a new fluidity in the region, new diplomatic alignments, and new opportunities for peace. The contributors place recent developments in historical and political context, analyzing changes in Soviet Middle East policy under Gorbachev as well as evaluating developments since the demise of the Soviet Union. The evolution of Moscow's policy toward the Arab states, Israel, the P.L.O., and the U.N. is given special attention. The contributors also examine the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism in the new states of Central Asia and weigh the potential implications of this development for the Middle East. In addition, they discuss security issues related to the transfer of military technology from former Soviet republics to the countries of the Middle East.

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Routledge

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1000315800

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9781000315806

Oil and the Kurdish Question

How Democracies Go to War in the Era of Late Capitalism

By: Stephen C. Pelletiere

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Oil and the Kurdish Question

How Democracies Go to War in the Era of Late Capitalism

By: Stephen C. Pelletiere

Oil and the Kurdish Question critiques the conventional narrative of the Iran-Iraq War and the associated Anfal campaign. This narrative claims that in the last two years (1987-88) of the Iran-Iraq War the Ba’thists dominated the fighting using gas attacks. According to this narrative, the Ba’thists also used gas in a fearsome campaign of extermination against the Kurds of northern Iraq. This book argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the Iraqis trained hard to turn the tables on Iran in the last months of the war and won by superior generalship without the use of gas. Further, it was only when the Iranians conceded defeat that the Iraqi army went north and—in the space of nine days, using conventional arms—suppressed pockets of Kurdish insurgent unrest. The book also examines how publicists exploited the myth of the Kurdish holocaust as justification for America to declare war on Iraq. It exposes a scheme laid out before the war that aimed to defeat Iraq, deconstruct it, and create an autonomous Kurdish Regional Government which would then let lucrative oil concessions to interests mainly in the west. The intrigue accomplished two things: it subverted Iraq’s oil nationalization law which forbade granting concessions to foreigners, and it ended Iraq’s existence as a sovereign nation-state.

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Lexington Books

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149851667X

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9781498516679

Historical Dictionary of Terrorism

By: Stephen Sloan,Sean K. Anderson

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Historical Dictionary of Terrorism

By: Stephen Sloan,Sean K. Anderson

The United States Department of Defense defines terrorism as 'the calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.' While terrorism has been around for centuries, it was the al Qa'eda attacks of September 11, 2001, that brought home to the world, and most particularly the United States, just how dangerous terrorism can be. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Terrorism presents the full spectrum of forms of political violence through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on major terrorist groups and their leaders, significant terrorist events, cyber-terrorism, counterterrorism, and social science concepts regarding the motivations and group dynamics of terrorist groups. Authors Sean K. Anderson and Stephen Sloan move beyond the gut reaction we have to this volatile and divisive topic by providing a reliable and objective reference on terrorism.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810863111

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9780810863118

The Decline Of The Soviet Union And The Transformation Of The Middle East

By: David Howard Goldberg,Paul Marantz,Stephen Page,Stephen Gotowicki

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By: David Howard Goldberg,Paul Marantz,Stephen Page,Stephen Gotowicki

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The Decline Of The Soviet Union And The Transformation Of The Middle East

The Decline Of The Soviet Union And The Transformation Of The Middle East

Oil and the Kurdish Question

Oil and the Kurdish Question

Historical Dictionary of Terrorism

Historical Dictionary of Terrorism

The Decline Of The Soviet Union And The Transformation Of The Middle East

The Decline Of The Soviet Union And The Transformation Of The Middle East

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