Format:
1 online resource (330 pages)
ISBN:
9780190613013
Content:
Details the rise of ISIS, which developed as autocrats in the Middle East sought to undermine the Arab Spring.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Meet the Deep State -- A Fateful Car Crash -- A State with Many Mansions -- Erdogan Versus the Deep State -- Payback Time -- 2. The Mythical Fathers of the Nation -- No Turkey without Kemalism -- From Ottoman Arabs to Colonized Ones -- Formal Independence -- A Dictatorial Hijacking -- Fathers and Pretenders -- 3. The Modern Mamluks -- An Insecure Nasser -- From Sadat to Mubarak -- Syrian Intrigue -- The Never-Ending Liberation Struggle of Algeria -- Yemeni Bipolarity -- 4. The Algerian Matrix -- From Riots to Ballots -- The New World Order -- The Generals' War -- Bouteflika's Reconciliation -- A Presidential Mummy -- 5. The Rise of the Security Mafias -- The Arab Dons -- Dancing with the Mob -- Blood for Oil -- The Israeli Jackpot -- 6. The 'Global Terror' Next Door -- Back to the Past in Yemen -- The Syrian Triple Game -- 7. The Story of Two Squares in Egypt -- A Not So Revolutionary Coup -- Bullets and Ballots -- Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- Ten Months of Covert War -- A Summer of Blood -- Sisi the Superstar -- Mamluks United -- 8. Evil Twins in Yemen and Syria -- The Jihadi Payback of a Presidential Ouster -- A Syrian Self-Fulfilling Prophecy -- The Caliph of Terror -- 9. Strangling Palestine -- The Nightmare of Yarmouk -- The Prison Warders of Gaza -- 10. The Tunisian Alternative -- The Tunisian Trump Cards -- The Right Moves at (Most of) the Right Times -- The Jihadi Challenge in Tunisia -- The Libyan Counter-Example -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select English Bibliography -- Chronology -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
9780190264062
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780190264062
Language:
English
