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This book focuses on the principal unresolved issues of the energy
crisis, the Arab-Israel dispute, and their tangled effects that
feed back to and feed upon relations with the North Atlantic
countries and Japan.
This book is conceived as an inquiry into the causes and
consequences of military intervention in the postwar politics of
the Middle East. It provides an informative and fully documented
study of the whole interplay of domestic, regional, and
international politics in the postwar Middle East.
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.
This book is the product of a multinational project, sponsored by
the Middle East Institute of Columbia University in cooperation
with the World Peace Foundation (Boston), the Atlantic Institute
for International Affairs (Paris), and the Asia-Pacific Association
of Japan (Tokyo). It focuses on the principal unresolved issues of
the energy crisis, t
In Two Volumes. Volume 1, A Documentary Record, 1535-1914; Volume
2, A Documentary Record, 1914-1956.
This reproduction of Professor Hurewitz's now classic work is
designed 'to unfold European diplomacy in and on the Near and
Middle East in modern times'. His collection of documents covers
more than 400 years, from the early (1535) Ottoman-French treaty,
through Napoleon's instructions to the French mission to Persia,
and Treaties for suppressing Slave Traffic and Piracy, up to the
modern period including the Sykes-Picot agreement for the partition
of the Ottoman Empire, 1916 and a Soviet-Iranian exchange of notes
in 1955. The work illustrates the history of diplomacy in the
Middle East while recording the great events and cycles of Arab
political development.
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