The Arab World Today : Fifth Edition /

Scholars and the concerned public have long relied on William Polk for comprehensive and insightful analysis of the culture and politics of the Arab world. The Arab World Today, a thoroughly revised and expanded version of earlier editions, including The Arab World of the American Foreign Policy Lib...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Polk, William R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Edición:5th ed. Reprint 2014
Temas:
Außenpolitik.
Geschichte.
International relations.
Politik.
Arab countries > Foreign relations > United States.
Arab countries > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
United States > Foreign relations > Arab countries.
HISTORY / General.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Figures
  • Preface to the 1991 Edition
  • The Arab World at a Glance
  • PART 1. Introduction
  • 1. The People on the Land
  • PART 2. Four Legacies from the Arab Past
  • 2. The Ancient Arabs: The Code of Honor
  • 3. Islam: The Regulation of Society
  • 4. Conquests and the Caliphate: Glorious Yesterdays
  • 5. The Alien Empires: Arab Exclusion from Rule
  • PART 3. The Impact of the West
  • 6. First Encounters: Point Counterpoint
  • 7. The High Cost of Modernization: Coming of the West
  • 8. The First World War: Midwife of Nationalism
  • PART 4. Development of the Arab States
  • 9. The Mandates: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Transjordan
  • 10. Arabia and Egypt: Isolation or Humiliation
  • 11. Libya and the Sudan: Undisguised Imperialism
  • 12. Palestine: The Promised Land
  • PART 5. The Independent Arab States
  • 13. Formal Independence: A Short Flight on Fledgling Wings
  • 14. Coups, Conflicts, and Conferences
  • 15. The Third Round: The Six-Day War of June 1967
  • 16. The Palestine Arab Diaspora
  • 17. The Fourth Round: The October 1973 War
  • PART 6. The Matrix of the New Arab
  • 18. The Economy of the Arab World
  • 19. Social Change and the New Men
  • 20. The Arabs and the World: A Quest for Identity and Dignity
  • PART 7. War, Fragmentation, and Uprising
  • 21. The Iraq-Iran War
  • 22. Maelstrom in the Levant
  • PART 8. The United States and the Arab World
  • 23. A Decade of Discovery
  • 24. American Policies of the 1960's
  • 25. Foreign Policy of the Nixon Administration
  • 26. The Carter Administration
  • 27. American Policies of the 1980's
  • Suggested Reading, Index
  • Suggested Reading
  • Index

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