Major Power Rivalry in the Middle East
Author: Steven Cook
Publisher:
Published: 2021-03-31
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ISBN-13: 9780876093627
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Sowing Crisis
Author: Rashid Khalidi
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780807003107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom "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.
Cold Wars
Author: Lorenz M. Lüthi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-19
Total Pages: 775
ISBN-13: 1108418333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new interpretation of the Cold War from the perspective of the smaller and middle powers in Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
Winning the Third World
Author: Gregg A. Brazinsky
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-02-23
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 1469631717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries. By playing a leadership role in Asia and Africa, China hoped to regain its status in world affairs, but Americans feared that China's history as a nonwhite, anticolonial nation would make it an even more dangerous threat in the postcolonial world than the Soviet Union. Drawing on a broad array of new archival materials from China and the United States, Brazinsky demonstrates that disrupting China's efforts to elevate its stature became an important motive behind Washington's use of both hard and soft power in the "Global South." Presenting a detailed narrative of the diplomatic, economic, and cultural competition between Beijing and Washington, Brazinsky offers an important new window for understanding the impact of the Cold War on the Third World. With China's growing involvement in Asia and Africa in the twenty-first century, this impressive new work of international history has an undeniable relevance to contemporary world affairs and policy making.
The World According to China
Author: Elizabeth C. Economy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2021-10-25
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1509537511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world’s population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping’s bold calls for China to “lead in the reform of the global governance system” suggest that he has just such an ambition. But how does he plan to realize it? And what does it mean for the rest of the world? In this compelling book, Elizabeth Economy reveals China’s ambitious new strategy to reclaim the country’s past glory and reshape the geostrategic landscape in dramatic new ways. Xi’s vision is one of Chinese centrality on the global stage, in which the mainland has realized its sovereignty claims over Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the South China Sea, deepened its global political, economic, and security reach through its grand-scale Belt and Road Initiative, and used its leadership in the United Nations and other institutions to align international norms and values, particularly around human rights, with those of China. It is a world radically different from that of today. The international community needs to understand and respond to the great risks, as well as the potential opportunities, of a world rebuilt by China.
The Soviet-American Competition in the Middle East
Author: Steven L. Spiegel
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternational Relations of the Middle East
Author: Louise L'Estrange Fawcett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780199269631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading scholars of Middle East politics and international relations present comprehensive coverage of the international politics of the Middle East, a region at the forefront of international attention.
Bargaining and Learning in Recurring Crises
Author: Russell J. Leng
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780472067039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy of the most prominent interstate rivalries in the second half of the century, and of the lessons that the leaders of the rival states drew from their recurring crises
The Cold War and the Middle East
Author: Yezid Sayigh
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1997-05-22
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0191571512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cold War has been researched in minute detail and written about at great length but it remains one of the most elusive and enigmatic conflicts of modern times. With the ending of the Cold War, it is now possible to review the entire post-war period, to examine the Cold War as history. The Middle East occupies a special place in the history of the Cold War. It was critical to its birth, its life and its demise. In the aftermath of the Second World War, it became one of the major theatres of the Cold War on account of its strategic importance and its oil resources. The key to the international politics of the Middle East during the Cold War era is the relationship between external powers and local powers. Most of the existing literature on the subject focuses on the policies of the Great Powers towards the local region. The Cold War and the Middle East redresses the balance by concentrating on the policies of the local actors. It looks at the politics of the region not just from the outside in but from the inside out. The contributors to this volume are leading scholars in the field whose interests combine International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies.
Master of the Game
Author: Martin Indyk
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2021-10-26
Total Pages: 689
ISBN-13: 1101947551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. “A wealth of lessons for today, not only about the challenges in that region but also about the art of diplomacy . . . the drama, dazzling maneuvers, and grand strategic vision.”—Walter Isaacson, author of The Code Breaker More than twenty years have elapsed since the United States last brokered a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. In that time, three presidents have tried and failed. Martin Indyk—a former United States ambassador to Israel and special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in 2013—has experienced these political frustrations and disappointments firsthand. Now, in an attempt to understand the arc of American diplomatic influence in the Middle East, he returns to the origins of American-led peace efforts and to the man who created the Middle East peace process—Henry Kissinger. Based on newly available documents from American and Israeli archives, extensive interviews with Kissinger, and Indyk's own interactions with some of the main players, the author takes readers inside the negotiations. Here is a roster of larger-than-life characters—Anwar Sadat, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Hafez al-Assad, and Kissinger himself. Indyk's account is both that of a historian poring over the records of these events, as well as an inside player seeking to glean lessons for Middle East peacemaking. He makes clear that understanding Kissinger's design for Middle East peacemaking is key to comprehending how to—and how not to—make peace.
