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Middle East Politics - The Military Dimension (Hardcover)
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Middle East Politics - The Military Dimension (Hardcover)
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The Arab-Israel Six Day War in June 1967 riveted world attention on
the huge quantities of sophisticated weapons amassed in the
arsenals of the Middle East - and left in its wake tangled
political-military dilemmas and the intensification of the most
dangerous arms race in the nonindustrialized world. How do major
upheavals spread across borders so easily in the Middle East? What
is the role of the military in the process of modernization? How
can the rash of military coups be explained? Why is Israel, the
most vigorous democracy in the Middle East, also the most
vigorously mobilized and armed nation? J. C. Hurewitz, Professor of
Government at Columbia University's School of International
Affairs, believes the answers to these and other pressing questions
of Middle Eastern politics can be found only in a thorough
examination of civil-military relations in each country, whether it
is under military rule or not. The Middle East, as defined in this
book, comprises eighteen states, stretching from Morocco to
Afghanistan and Pakistan. Probing the role of the military in each
state, the author assesses such other factors as the geographical
and regional influences on specific national developments.
Dominating all are the ramifications of the competing American and
Soviet policies for the region. Through his analysis of the cold
war tactics of the two Great Powers, and of the bewildering arms
races and the confusion of military politics that these tactics
have engendered, Professor Hurewitz brings into much clearer
perspective the options for the West, and particularly for the
United States, in this area. He has provided, in sum, an
informative and fully documented study of the whole interplay of
domestic, regional, and international politics in the postwar
Middle East.
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