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Book Beyond the Arab Cold War

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  • Author : Asher Orkaby
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0190618442
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Arab Cold War written by Asher Orkaby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond paradigms : an introduction to the Yemen civil war -- International intrigue and the origins of september 1962 -- Recognizing the new republic -- Local hostilities and international diplomacy -- The UN Yemen observer mission (UNYOM) -- Nasser's cage -- Chemical warfare in Yemen : the limits of the poison gas taboo -- The Anglo-Egyptian rivalry in Yemen -- Yemen, Israel, and the road to 1967 -- The impact of individuals -- The siege of Sana'a and the end of the Yemen civil war -- Epilogue : echoes of a civil war

Book Women Rising

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  • Author : Rita Stephan
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2020-06-09
  • ISBN : 1479883034
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Women Rising written by Rita Stephan and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women’s resistance before, during, and after the Arab Spring Images of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women. In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women’s political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011. Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including rural women, housewives, students, and artists. Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first century movement, telling the story of Arab women’s activism.

Book Yemen

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  • Author : Asher Orkaby
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 0190932260
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Yemen written by Asher Orkaby and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yemen: What Everyone Needs to Know® is an authoritative overview of one of the most troubled states in the world. Asher Orkaby provides a comprehensive analysis of current crises, major players, and potential solutions to an ongoing civil war. Underlying this contemporary focus is an overview of Yemen's long history, its tribal and religious dynamics, and the social impact of the Arab Spring on the country's women and youth. While the book details theongoing water crisis and debilitating poverty, it also provides a window into economic performance and potential avenues through which Yemen could be led towards a more prosperous and stable future.

Book We All Lost the Cold War

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  • Author : Richard Ned Lebow
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1995-07-03
  • ISBN : 1400821088
  • Pages : 557 pages

Download or read book We All Lost the Cold War written by Richard Ned Lebow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-03 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973. They conclude that the strategy of deterrence prolonged rather than ended the conflict between the superpowers.

Book Beyond the cold War

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Beyond the cold War written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sowing Crisis

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  • Author : Rashid Khalidi
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9780807003107
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Sowing Crisis written by Rashid Khalidi and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "the foremost U.S. historian of the modern Middle East" ("L.A. Times") comes a powerful argument that the global conflicts now playing out explosively in the Middle East were significantly shaped by the Cold War era.

Book Beyond War

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  • Author : David Rohde
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2013-04-18
  • ISBN : 1101606215
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Beyond War written by David Rohde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking look at America’s role in the Middle East—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Rope and a Prayer Distilling eleven years of expert reporting for the New York Times, Reuters, and the Atlantic, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Rohde presents an incisive look at the calamitous privatization of the war on terror. Beyond War is a clarion call for change in American policies and attitudes toward a rapidly changing Middle East. Rohde argues that using lethal force is necessary at times, but economic growth and Muslim moderates —not American soldiers—will eradicate militancy in the long term. Vast mistakes have been made, but it is not too late. By scaling back our ambitions, focusing on economics and working with Muslim moderates, we will achieve more.

Book Cold War in the Islamic World

Download or read book Cold War in the Islamic World written by Dilip Hiro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four decades Saudi Arabia and Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoing Cold War between Riyadh and Tehran lie the Sunni-Shia divide, and the two countries' intertwined histories. Saudis see this as a conflict between Sunni and Shia; Iran's ruling clerics view it as one between their own Islamic Republic and an illegitimate monarchy. This foundational schism has played out in a geopolitical competition for dominance in the region: Iran has expanded its influence in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, while Saudi Arabia's hyperactive crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman, has intervened in Yemen, isolated Qatar and destabilized Lebanon. Dilip Hiro examines the toxic rivalry between the two countries, tracing its roots and asking whether this Islamic Cold War is likely to end any time soon.

Book Beyond the Arab Israeli Settlement

Download or read book Beyond the Arab Israeli Settlement written by Rouhollah K. Ramazani and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond the Arab Cold War

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  • Author : Asher Orkaby
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017-06-01
  • ISBN : 0190618450
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Arab Cold War written by Asher Orkaby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Arab Cold War brings the Yemen Civil War, 1962-68, to the forefront of modern Middle East History. During the 1960s, in the wake of a coup against Imam Muhammad al-Badr and the formation of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), Yemen was transformed into an arena of global conflict. Believing al-Badr to be dead, Egypt, the Soviet Union, and most countries recognized the YAR. But when al-Badr unexpectedly turned up alive, Saudi Arabia and Britain offered support to the deposed Imam, drawing Yemen into an internationally-sponsored civil war. Throughout six years of major conflict, Yemen sat at the crossroads of regional and international conflict as dozens of countries, international organizations, and individuals intervened in the local South Arabian civil war. Yemen was a showcase for a new era of UN and Red Cross peacekeeping, clandestine activity, Egyptian counterinsurgency, and one of the first largescale uses of poison gas since WWI. Events in Yemen were not dominated by a single power, nor were they sole products of US-Soviet or Saudi-Egyptian Arab Cold War rivalry. Britain, Canada, Israel, the UN, the US, and the USSR joined Egypt and Saudi Arabia in assuming varying roles in fighting, mediating, and supplying the belligerent forces. Despite Cold War tensions, Americans and Soviets appeared on the same side of the Yemeni conflict and acted mutually to confine Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser to the borders of South Arabia. The end of the Yemen Civil War marked the end of both Nasser's Arab Nationalist colonial expansion and the British Empire in the Middle East, two of the most dominant regional forces. This internationalized conflict was a pivotal event in Middle East history, overseeing the formation of a modern Yemeni state, the fall of Egyptian and British regional influence, another Arab-Israeli war, Saudi dominance of the Arabian Peninsula, and shifting power alliances in the Middle East that continue to lie at the core of modern-day conflicts in South Arabia.

Book Beyond the Cold War

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  • Author : George W. Breslauer
  • Publisher : International and Area Studies Institute of Udies
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Beyond the Cold War written by George W. Breslauer and published by International and Area Studies Institute of Udies. This book was released on 1991 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Release :
  • ISBN : 0544716248
  • Pages : pages

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Book Russia and the Arabs

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  • Author : Evgeniĭ Maksimovich Primakov
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009-09-22
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Russia and the Arabs written by Evgeniĭ Maksimovich Primakov and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty tumultuous years of Middle East history, from the perspective of a former Russian prime minister and KGB general

Book Reconstructing the Cold War

Download or read book Reconstructing the Cold War written by Ted Hopf and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title explores how the early years of the Cold War were marked by contradictions and conflict. It looks at how the turn from Stalin's discourse of danger to the discourse of difference under his successors explains the abrupt changes in relations with Eastern Europe, China, the decolonizing world, and the West.

Book Nasser s Gamble

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  • Author : Jesse Ferris
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0691155143
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Nasser s Gamble written by Jesse Ferris and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nasser's Gamble draws on declassified documents from six countries and original material in Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Russian to present a new understanding of Egypt's disastrous five-year intervention in Yemen, which Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser later referred to as "my Vietnam." Jesse Ferris argues that Nasser's attempt to export the Egyptian revolution to Yemen played a decisive role in destabilizing Egypt's relations with the Cold War powers, tarnishing its image in the Arab world, ruining its economy, and driving its rulers to instigate the fatal series of missteps that led to war with Israel in 1967. Viewing the Six Day War as an unintended consequence of the Saudi-Egyptian struggle over Yemen, Ferris demonstrates that the most important Cold War conflict in the Middle East was not the clash between Israel and its neighbors. It was the inter-Arab struggle between monarchies and republics over power and legitimacy. Egypt's defeat in the "Arab Cold War" set the stage for the rise of Saudi Arabia and political Islam. Bold and provocative, Nasser's Gamble brings to life a critical phase in the modern history of the Middle East. Its compelling analysis of Egypt's fall from power in the 1960s offers new insights into the decline of Arab nationalism, exposing the deep historical roots of the Arab Spring of 2011.

Book The Global Offensive

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  • Author : Paul Thomas Chamberlin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
  • Release : 2012-10-18
  • ISBN : 0199811393
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book The Global Offensive written by Paul Thomas Chamberlin and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Offensive shows how Palestinian liberation fighters - inspired and supported by other revolutionary groups in the Third World - waged a military and diplomatic campaign between 1967 and 1975 that seized the world's attention. Meanwhile, the United States and its allies in the region struggled to contain this revolutionary new force in the Middle East.

Book The Politics of Peace

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  • Author : Petra Goedde
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-01-10
  • ISBN : 0199708010
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book The Politics of Peace written by Petra Goedde and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a television broadcast in 1959, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower remarked that "people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days our governments had better get out of the way and let them have it." At that very moment international peace organizations were bypassing national governments to create alternative institutions for the promotion of world peace and mounting the first serious challenge to the state-centered conduct of international relations. This study explores the emerging politics of peace, both as an ideal and as a pragmatic aspect of international relations, during the early cold war. It traces the myriad ways in which a broad spectrum of people involved in and affected by the cold war used, altered, and fought over a seemingly universal concept. These dynamic interactions involved three sets of global actors: cold war states, peace advocacy groups, and anti-colonial liberationists. These transnational networks challenged and eventually undermined the cold war order. They did so not just with reference to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Western Europe, but also by addressing the violence of national liberation movements in the Third World. As Petra Goedde shows in this work, deterritorializing the cold war reveals the fractures that emerged within each cold war camp, as activists both challenged their own governments over the right path toward global peace and challenged each other over the best strategy to achieve it. The Politics of Peace demonstrates that the scientists, journalists, publishers, feminists, and religious leaders who drove the international discourse on peace after World War II laid the groundwork for the eventual political transformation of the Cold War.