Paths To The Middle East

Author : Alison L. Gascoigne,Leonie V. Hicks,Marianne O'Doherty
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Europe
ISBN : 2503541739

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Journeying Along Medieval Routes in Europe and the Middle East by Alison L. Gascoigne,Leonie V. Hicks,Marianne O'Doherty Pdf

Focusing on routes and journeys throughout medieval Europe and the Middle East in the period between Late Antiquity and the thirteenth century, this multi-disciplinary book draws on travel narratives, chronicles, maps, charters, geographies, and material remains in order to shed new light on the experience of travelling in the Middle Ages. The contributions gathered here explore the experiences of travellers moving between Latin Europe and the Holy Land, between southern Italy and Sicily, and across Germany and England, from a range of disciplinary perspectives. In doing so, they offer unique insights into the experience, conditions, conceptualization, and impact of human movement in medieval Europe. Many essays place a strong emphasis on the methodological problems associated with the study of travel and its traces, and the collection is enhanced by the juxtaposition of scholarly work taking different approaches to this challenge. The papers included here engage in cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary dialogue and are supported by a discursive, contextualizing introduction by the editors.

Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807003145

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Resurrecting Empire by Rashid Khalidi Pdf

Begun as the United States moved its armed forces into Iraq, Rashid Khalidi's powerful and thoughtful new book examines the record of Western involvement in the region and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent Middle East incursions. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the political and cultural history of the entire region as well as interviews and documents, Khalidi paints a chilling scenario of our present situation and yet offers a tangible alternative that can help us find the path to peace rather than Empire. We all know that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Sadly, as Khalidi reveals with clarity and surety, America's leaders seem blindly committed to an ahistorical path of conflict, occupation, and colonial rule. Our current policies ignore rather than incorporate the lessons of experience. American troops in Iraq have seen first hand the consequences of U.S. led "democratization" in the region. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict seems intractable, and U.S. efforts in recent years have only inflamed the situation. The footprints America follows have led us into the same quagmire that swallowed our European forerunners. Peace and prosperity for the region are nowhere in sight. This cogent and highly accessible book provides the historical and cultural perspective so vital to understanding our present situation and to finding and pursuing a more effective and just foreign policy. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Thomas Naff
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438414058

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Paths to the Middle East by Thomas Naff Pdf

The field of Middle East studies is undergoing a generational change in academia, government, and the corporate community. The men and women who trained the present generation of scholars and who shaped government and corporate policies toward the Middle East after World War II have begun to retire, and unfortunately some have recently died. To preserve their insights into the past and their visions of the future, Thomas Naff asked a number of major Islamic and Middle East scholars to provide their perspectives and views in a short, personal summation of their careers. This book is a compilation of their responses. It provides a unique evaluation of the last 30 or 40 years by ten of the most distinguished pioneers representing key branches of the field. Pierre Cachia, Albert Hourani, J.C. Hurewitz, Halil Inalcik, Charles Issawi, Ernest McCarus, George Makdisi, Don Peretz, Dankwart A. Rustow, and Farhat J. Ziadeh have provided their perspectives on the past and present, their visions of future paths to be explored, and their wisdom drawn from decades of experience and scholarship. Whatever didacticism is offered in this book is not formal. Lessons, insights, wisdom, and inspiration are almost invisibly woven into the fabric of fascinating biographical narrative told with wit, style, self-effacement, and candor.

Author : Kenneth Pollack
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812976427

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A Path Out of the Desert by Kenneth Pollack Pdf

The greatest danger to America’s peace and prosperity, notes leading Middle East policy analyst Kenneth M. Pollack, lies in the political repression, economic stagnation, and cultural conflict running rampant in Arab and Muslim nations. Pollack asserts that we must continue to make the Middle East a priority in our policy, but in a humbler, more realistic, and more cohesive way. In his long-term strategy, Pollack suggests that America engage directly with the governments of the Middle East and indirectly with its people by means of cultural exchange, commerce, and other “soft” approaches. He carefully examines each of the region’s most contested areas, as well as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and explains how the United States can address each through mutually reinforcing policies. At a time when the nation is facing critical decisions about our continued presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, A Path Out of the Desert is guaranteed to stimulate debate about America’s humanitarian, diplomatic, and military involvement in the Middle East.

Author : Etel Solingen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400828029

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Nuclear Logics by Etel Solingen Pdf

Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking closely at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East, Etel Solingen finds two distinct regional patterns. In East Asia, the norm since the late 1960s has been to forswear nuclear weapons, and North Korea, which makes no secret of its nuclear ambitions, is the anomaly. In the Middle East the opposite is the case, with Iran, Iraq, Israel, and Libya suspected of pursuing nuclear-weapons capabilities, with Egypt as the anomaly in recent decades. Identifying the domestic conditions underlying these divergent paths, Solingen argues that there are clear differences between states whose leaders advocate integration in the global economy and those that reject it. Among the former are countries like South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, whose leaders have had stronger incentives to avoid the political, economic, and other costs of acquiring nuclear weapons. The latter, as in most cases in the Middle East, have had stronger incentives to exploit nuclear weapons as tools in nationalist platforms geared to helping their leaders survive in power. Solingen complements her bold argument with other logics explaining nuclear behavior, including security dilemmas, international norms and institutions, and the role of democracy and authoritarianism. Her account charts the most important frontier in understanding nuclear proliferation: grasping the relationship between internal and external political survival. Nuclear Logics is a pioneering book that is certain to provide an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, and practitioners while reframing the policy debate surrounding nonproliferation.

Author : Charles Tripp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521809658

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The Power and the People by Charles Tripp Pdf

This book is about power. The power wielded over others - by absolute monarchs, tyrannical totalitarian regimes and military occupiers - and the power of the people who resist and deny their rulers' claims to that authority by whatever means. The extraordinary events in the Middle East in 2011 offered a vivid example of how non-violent demonstration can topple seemingly invincible rulers. Drawing on these dramatic events and parallel moments in the modern history of the Middle East, from the violent uprisings in Algeria against the French in the early twentieth century, to revolution in Iran in 1979, and the Palestinian intifada, the book considers the ways in which the people have united to unseat their oppressors and fight against the status quo to shape a better future. The book also probes the relationship between power and forms of resistance and how common experiences of violence and repression create new collective identities. Nowhere is this more strikingly exemplified than in the art of the Middle East, its posters and graffiti, and its provocative installations which are discussed in the concluding chapter. This brilliant, yet unsettling book affords a panoramic view of the twentieth and twenty-first century Middle East through occupation, oppression, and political resistance.

Author : George J. Mitchell,Alon Sachar
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501153921

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A Path to Peace by George J. Mitchell,Alon Sachar Pdf

Leaders in disagreement -- How it began -- Moving in opposite directions -- Madrid to Annapolis -- A missed opportunity -- Contested territory -- Overcoming the trust deficit -- Much process, no progress -- Isratine -- A path to peace.

Author : Khalidi· Rashid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : OCLC:1036825836

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Resurrecting Empire by Khalidi· Rashid Pdf

Author : rashid khalidi
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 1850439036

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resurrecting empire by rashid khalidi Pdf

Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the region, Khalidi examines the record of Western involvement in the Middle East and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent incursions.

Author : William H. Brubeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Israel-Arab War, 1973
ISBN : 0943006007

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Reflections on the Path to Middle East Peace by William H. Brubeck Pdf

Author : Kenneth Pollack
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812976427

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A Path Out of the Desert by Kenneth Pollack Pdf

The greatest danger to America’s peace and prosperity, notes leading Middle East policy analyst Kenneth M. Pollack, lies in the political repression, economic stagnation, and cultural conflict running rampant in Arab and Muslim nations. Pollack asserts that we must continue to make the Middle East a priority in our policy, but in a humbler, more realistic, and more cohesive way. In his long-term strategy, Pollack suggests that America engage directly with the governments of the Middle East and indirectly with its people by means of cultural exchange, commerce, and other “soft” approaches. He carefully examines each of the region’s most contested areas, as well as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and explains how the United States can address each through mutually reinforcing policies. At a time when the nation is facing critical decisions about our continued presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, A Path Out of the Desert is guaranteed to stimulate debate about America’s humanitarian, diplomatic, and military involvement in the Middle East.

Author : Avi Melamed
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781510769342

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Inside the Middle East by Avi Melamed Pdf

Why Is the Middle East Entering a “New Era?” Is It a New Dawn? Is It a Setting Sun? In the third decade of the twenty-first century, the Middle East is entering a new era. A multifaceted and intricate equilibrium will write the next chapter of this region. The new era we are entering is fraught with challenges and full of opportunities. The new era is both defined by, and a result of, a combination of ancient and modern, domestic, regional, and international processes. Iran and Turkey each strive to position themselves as the regional superpower. In parallel, the people of the region struggle to overcome increasing domestic challenges. These developments, combined with an escalating struggle over path, identity, and direction, could result in a new model of statehood in the Arab world. While some countries take the turbulent path toward a possible new statehood model, others are fighting for their sovereignty and survival. All of this is occurring while Western hegemony in the Middle East is coming to an end and the Eastern giants are on the rise. Acclaimed Middle East expert, an Israeli fluent in Arabic, English, and Hebrew, Avi Melamed has a proven exceptional record of foreseeing the evolution of events in the Middle East and their impact on a local and regional level. In this book, Melamed takes you on a fascinating eye-opening journey through the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East in the third decade of the twenty first century. He challenges common Western concepts, narratives, and theories. And he provides predictions about some of the most central regional issues of the day. Using primarily sources from the region, Avi Melamed provides a professional, rare insider’s view and clearly and insightfully contextualizes current regional events. Inside The Middle East: Entering a New Era provides the knowledge and tools to connect the dots. This distinct understanding allows the reader to build a multidimensional picture of the geopolitical reality of the Middle East today and provides an unparalleled foundation for navigating the events of tomorrow.

Author : Dave Bowers
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781910456361

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Beyond the Bosphorus: British Drivers on the Middle-East Routes by Dave Bowers Pdf

The Middle East has always been one of the most challenging destinations for lorry drivers. In the 1970s and 80s, many drivers may not have even heard of the destinations they were sent to before heading out eastwards. Along the way they endured extreme weather conditions, bureaucratic nightmares, and the physical trials of keeping themselves and their trucks operational over many thousands of miles of poorly maintained and dangerous roads. Their adventures have become legendary within the trucking world.In this book Dave Bowers tells with humour and insight the amazing stories of people driving to Middle East destinations, battling against all the odds to deliver their loads. The inspiration comes from his own experience through those routes and in particular on one adventurous journey homewards from Tehran in 1975, when he happened to be stranded in Iran, with no cash to speak of and spending many nights sleeping in abandoned trailers along the way. Dave travelled homewards after he was given lifts in trucks returning to Europe. These were driven by drivers who had many tales to tell, and this book was motivated by the need to keep these fascinating stories alive.Illustrated with photographs of the drivers and vehicles taken at the time, Beyond the Bosphorus records what it was like for ordinary HGV drivers to get involved in something so dramatically different from their everyday working lives in the UK. It will be of interest to lorry drivers, general vehicle enthusiasts and also those with a historical and social interest in the Middle East alike.

Author : Kenneth W. Dam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Government publications
ISBN : MINN:31951D00822874O

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Negotiations, the Path to Peace in the Middle East by Kenneth W. Dam Pdf

Author : Alec Douglas-Home Baron Home of the Hirsel,Abba Solomon Eban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : NWU:35556002384261

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Paths to Peace in the Middle East by Alec Douglas-Home Baron Home of the Hirsel,Abba Solomon Eban Pdf