The State of the Middle East: An Atlas of Conflict and Resolution - Softcover

Smith, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520257537 ISBN 13: 9780520257535

Verlag: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

As Western powers attempt to redraw the map of the Middle East, Dan Smith uses his forensic skills to unravel this arena of confrontation and instability, from the Ottoman Empire to the present day. With customarily acute analysis, he highlights key issues and maps their global implications to explain why this region has become, and will remain, the focal point for international relations. Updated topics in this title include: Demographic data; The Israel-Palestine situation; The current war in Iraq; The situation in Lebanon; Refugees and migration; and, Islam in the world Copub: Myriad Editions.

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Praise for Dan Smith’s other atlases:

The State of the World Atlas is something elsean occasion of wit and an act of subversion. These are the bad dreams of the modern world, given color and shape and submitted to a grid that can be grasped instantaneously.”New York Times

A compact, versatile and politically imaginative work of reference.”New Statesman

Biografía del autor

Dan Smith is Secretary-General of International Alert and former Director of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. He is author of The State of the World Atlas and The Atlas of War and Peace.

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• Verlag: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0520257537
• ISBN 13: 9780520257535
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152