Contents: Part one : The roots of conflict 1. Lines in the sand 2. The curse of black gold Part two : The making of a war machine 1. Guarded secrets 2. Merchants of Death Part three : Dictatorship and invasion 1. The making of a dictator 2. Saddam's long arm 3. The gathering storm 4. The screw tightens.
In Islamic law the world was made up of the House of Islam and the House of War with the Ottoman Sultan, the perceived successor to the Caliphs, supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no iron curtain between the Ottoman and other worlds but rather a long-established network of diplomatic, financial, cultural and religious connections. These exte…
The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource: oil. Daniel Yergin’s timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for over a century and continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations. The Prize proves the unwavering significance of oil throughout the modern era …
Contents: 1. Historical background 2. Jerusalem under the British mandate 3. The international regime for Jerusalem under the partition resolution 4. The de facto division of Jerusalem, 1948 5. Reaffirmations of the principle of the internationalisation of Jerusalem 6. The proposals of the conciliation commission for Palestine for an international regime for Jerusalem
Ketika anda membaca buku ini, Israel mungkin sedang melakukan pembunuhan terhadap bocah-bocah maupun perempuan-perempuan tak berdosa di bumi Palestina. Mereka menghancurkan rumah-rumah bangsa Palestina, di kota dan di desa. Bandara, yang menjadi satu-satunya jalur perhubungan udara Palestina, juga tak henti-hentinya dirusak Israel. Sebagai negara Yahudi (The Jewish State) yang merupakan buah…
When Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came to power upon his father's death in 2000, many in- and outside Syria held high hopes that the popular young doctor would bring long-awaited reform, that he would be a new kind of Middle East leader capable of guiding his country toward genuine democracy. David Lesch was one of those who saw this promise in Assad. A widely respected Middle East scholar …
Journalist Jonathan Cook explores Israel’s key role in persuading the Bush administration to invade Iraq, as part of a plan to remake the Middle East, and their joint determination to isolate Iran and prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons that might rival Israel’s own. This concise and clearly argued book makes the case that Israel's desire to be the sole regional power in the Middl…
A military chronicle of the Iraq war is a critical assessment of America's role as viewed from the firsthand perspectives of senior military officers that argues that the guerrilla insurgency that took place in the months after the fall of Saddam Hussein was avoidable and that officers who spoke against the war did so at the cost of their careers.
During the last presidential election in Iran, nonviolent protestors defied the mullahs’ power by wearing green ribbons on their wrists. In June of 2009, the inhabitants of Tehran were living underground to escape the government’s authority, strangled by interdictions, dreaming of freedom and revolution. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran and desperate to maintai…
People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? Closely argued but clearly written, David Harvey, a leading social theorist of his generation, builds a conceptual framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind these momentous shifts in US pol…