The new Arab revolt : what hppened, what it means and what comes next.
- xvi, 480 pages : map ; 23 cm
The past as prologue -- The ice breaks up -- The cracks spread -- Intervention in Libya -- What it means and what comes next -- Documents.
The new Arab revolt: what hppened, what it means and what comes next sets the intellectual stage for understanding the revolutions in the Middle East. This collection brings together more than sixty articles, interviews, congressional testimony, and op-eds from experts and thought leaders, including Bernard Lewis, Fouad Ajami, Richard Haass, Lisa Anderson, Martin Indyk, Isobel Coleman, Aluf Benn, Dirk Vandewalle, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The volume includes seminal pieces from Foreign Affairs.com, and CFR.org. In addition, major public statements by Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hosni Mubarak, Muammar al-Qaddafi, and others are joined by Egyptian opposition writings and relevant primary source documents. Even if you have been paying close attention to the extraordinary events unfolding in the Middle East, thi book pulls together what is needed to understand the origins and significance of the new Arab revolt, inluding a specia introduction by Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose.
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