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Rethinking the Middle East (Hardcover)
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Rethinking the Middle East (Hardcover)
Series: Israeli History, Politics and Society
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Rethinking the Middle East runs counter to the received wisdom in
modern Middle East studies. This discipline has been dominated by
what may be termed a culture of victimization; it views the local
populations of the Middle East Arabs in particular as the hapless
victims of alien encroachment, and blames the region's endemic
malaise on Western political and cultural imperialism. The author
contends that the influence of the Great Powers has not been the
primary force behind the region's political development, nor the
main cause of its famous volatility. He argues that the main
impetus has been provided by regional factors; and that even at
their weakest point in modern history - during the final stages of
the Ottoman Empire - the peoples in the Middle East have played an
active role in the restructuring of their region. Historical
writing and popular beliefs concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict
are re-examined in the light of this thesis.
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