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The Gulf Wars
- Controlling the flow of oil
- The first Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm
- Iraqi strike
- Coalition attacks
- Aftermath: a decade of tension
- The second Gulf War
- Sanctions Left After War
- The implications of the second Gulf War
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Of the many conflicts that have divided the Middle East since 1918, two have received the bulk of public attention in the West (countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Canada, and the United States). The first is the long-standing conflict between Jews and Arabs over control of the land...
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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
