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Building Nations I: The Arab World
- Turkey: unlikely survivor of the Ottoman collapse
- Persia/Iran: A special case in the Middle East
- Egypt: grudging pawn of the British
- Iraq
- Why Is the West So Interested in the Middle East?
- Syria and Lebanon
- The Arabian Peninsula before oil
- Jordan: stability amid turmoil
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Up until the end of World War I (1914–18; war in which Great Britain, France, the United States, and their allies defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary, and their allies), the Middle East had enjoyed hundreds of...
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- Rooted in the Past: Seeds of Discord in the Ancient Middle East
- The Long Decline: From the Ottoman Empire to the Mandate System
- Competing Visions: Zionism, Nationalism, Pan-Arabism, and Islamism
- Building Nations I: The Arab World
- Building Nations II: Palestine and Israel
- The Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948–73
- The Long Road to Peace: Israeli-Palestinian Relations, 1973–
- Global Politics and the Middle East
- Terrorism in the Middle East
- Lebanon: The Never-Ending Conflict
- The Iran-Iraq War
- The Gulf Wars
- Flashpoints: Ethnic and Religious Conflicts
- The Future of the Middle East Conflict
