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Global Politics and the Middle East
- Imperial powers vie for influence in the Middle East
- Dividing the spoils of World War I
- Cold War rivalries
- Conflicting strategies
- Iran and Turkey
- Iraq and Syria
- The Cold War and the Arab-Israeli conflict
- Oil: the Arab World's Major Weapon
- Middle Eastern politics in the age of the lone superpower
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When the United States went to war against Iraq in the first Gulf War in 1991 (a war in which many nations attempted to stop Iraq from...
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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
