Conflict and War in the Middle East: From Interstate War to New Security

by Bassam Tibi

Book Overview

Few studies of Middle East wars go beyond a narrative of events and most tend to impose on this subject the rigid scheme of superpower competition. The Gulf War of 1991, however, challenges this view of the Middle East as an extension of the global conflict. The failure of the accord of both superpowers to avoid war even once regional superpower competition in the Middle East had ceased must give rise to the question: Do regional conflicts have their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312211511
• ISBN13: 9780312211516
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.6"