The Middle East.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Congressional Quarterly, inc
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, [2007], ©2007.
Edition:Eleventh edition.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xix, 663 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Preface -- Overview of the Middle East -- Fifteen centuries of Islam -- Unity and diversity -- Islam and the West -- Arabia : birthplace of the Muslim community -- Foundations of Islamic faith and practice -- Islam today -- The struggle in Islam -- Arab-Israeli conflict -- Origins of the conflict -- The British mandate -- Partition of Palestine -- Early Arab-Israeli relations -- The 1956 Suez crisis and war -- Arab rivalries -- The June 1967 war -- The October 1973 war -- Rise of the PLO -- Camp David Accords -- Israel at war in Lebanon -- Diplomacy, 1982-1987 -- The Intifada, 1987-1991 -- The U.S.-PLO dialogue -- Seeds of agreement -- Post-Oslo -- Camp David, the al-Aqsa Intifada, and the end of Oslo -- Israeli unilateralism and post-Arafat politics -- Outlook -- Persian Gulf conflicts -- The Iran-Iraq rivalry -- The Iran-Iraq war, 1980-1988 -- The Persian Gulf crisis, 1990-1991 -- Persian Gulf war, 1991 -- Containing Iraq -- The Iraq war, 2003 -- Postwar developments -- Islamist extremism and terrorism -- Iran's drive for nuclear capability -- Pakistan, the "Islamic bomb," and relations with the Taliban and Afghanistan -- Gulf Cooperation Council -- Outlook -- Middle Eastern oil and gas -- History -- Prices plummet -- The Persian Gulf crisis and war -- Twenty-first-century recovery -- Peak oil -- Growing demand : China and India -- Caspian Sea petroleum -- Economic diversification -- Natural gas -- Outlook -- U.S. Policy in the Middle East -- The Executive Branch -- Congress -- The public and foreign policy -- U.S. Middle East Policy -- Outlook -- Profiles -- Egypt -- Iran -- Iraq -- Israel -- Jordan -- Kuwait -- Lebanon -- Libya -- Palestinian Authority -- Persian Gulf states -- Saudi Arabia -- Syria -- Turkey -- Yemen -- Appendix -- Chronology of events, 1900-2006 -- Major Middle Eastern wars, 1948-2006. 
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