Battleground: 10 Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East - Softcover

Phillips, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300281080 ISBN 13: 9780300281088

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2025

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The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East
 
The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire region. More than a decade ago, the Arab Spring had raised hopes of a new beginning but instead ushered in a series of civil wars, coups, and even harsher autocracies. Tensions were exacerbated by the meddling of outsiders, as regional and global powers sought to further their interests. The United States, for so long the dominant actor, had stepped back, leaving a vacuum behind it to be fought over.
 
Christopher Phillips explores geopolitical rivalries in the region, and the major external powers vying for influence: Russia, China, the EU, and the US. Moving through ten key flashpoints, from Syria to Palestine, Phillips argues that the United States’ overextension after the Cold War, and retreat in the 2010s, has imbalanced the region. Today, the Middle East remains blighted by conflicts of unprecedented violence and a post-American scramble for power – leaving its fate in the balance.

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Christopher Phillips is professor of international relations at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Battle for Syria, now in its second edition, and coeditor of What Next for Britain in the Middle East?

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0300281080
• ISBN 13: 9780300281088
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
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