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Conflict and war in the Middle East, 1967-91 : regional dynamic and the superpowers

Author: Bassam Tibi
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.
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The end of the Cold War and of the related cease of superpower competition could not prevent the outbreak of the Gulf War. No explanation for this can be found in the numerous books on the Middle East. Few studies of Middle East wars go beyond a narrative of events and most tend to impose on this subject the rigid scheme of superpower competition. The Gulf War of 1991, however, challenges this view of the Middle  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bassam Tibi
ISBN: 0312084056 9780312084059
OCLC Number: 25675726
Notes: Rev. and updated translation of: Konfliktregion Naher Osten.
Description: xi, 253 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Middle Eastern Wars from the World and International Systemic Perspectives --
Pt. 1. The International System as a Configuration of Regional Subsystems: The Case of the Middle East. 1. The Science of International Relations: Between Globalism and Regionalism. Of 'Squirrels' and 'Elephants': the New States in the International System. The Essential Aspects of Regional Subsystem Theory, its Origins and Significance. 2. The Middle East: Its Location and Delimitation. Interaction as Integration or as Conflict Structure? A Middle East Subsystem or an Arab Regional Order? Subsystemic State Actors, their Structurally Determined Ranking and their Relationships to the Extra-regional Environment --
Pt. 2. From Arab Renaissance (Nahda) to the Six Day War of 1967: The New Historical Epoch After June 1967. 3. The Six Day War of 1967: The Background and Multifaceted Character of an Escalated Regional Conflict. The Six Day War: the Course of the Military Conflict. 4. The Regional and International Repercussions of the Six Day War: The End of Nasserism and the Beginning of a New Historical Epoch. The Middle East since 1967: Defeat and Arab Self-criticism, the Decline of Nasserism and the Rise of 'Political Petrolism'. The Former Great Powers and the New Superpowers in the Region: the International Repercussions of the June War --
Pt. 3. The 1973 October War: The Regional Dynamic of the Middle East Conflict and the Superpowers. Arms, Oil and Shifts in Regional and International Alliances. 5. The Yom Kippur, Ramadan or October War? Historical Continuity from the Six Day War to the Nineteen Day War. 6. The Superpowers and the October War. On the Verge of a Military Confrontation between the Superpowers. From Battlefield to Diplomacy: Kissinger's 'Step-by-Step' Strategy as a Prelude to the Turnabout in Egypt. 7. October 1973: The War with Arms and the War with Oil: Petro-dollar Power and the 1973-77 Saudi-Egyptian Axis; its Revival during the Iran-Iraq War and its Aftermath. The October War and Employment of the Arab Oil Weapon. The Egyptian-Saudi Axis and Competition for a Position of Power since the October War --
Pt. 4. The Gulf War, Its Linkages and Background: Regional Dynamic and the Fragmentation of the Middle East in the Post-Cold War Era. 8. The Middle East between the 1973 October War and the 1990-91 Gulf War: An Epidemically Region of Conflict? 9. From the Iraq-Kuwait Conflict to the Gulf War. 10. The Historical Context of Conflict and War in the Middle East in the Light of the Gulf War
Other Titles: Konfliktregion Naher Osten.
Responsibility: Bassam Tibi ; translated by Clare Krojzl.
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The end of the Cold War and of the related cease of superpower competition could not prevent the outbreak of the Gulf War. No explanation for this can be found in the numerous books on the Middle East. Few studies of Middle East wars go beyond a narrative of events and most tend to impose on this subject the rigid scheme of superpower competition. The Gulf War of 1991, however, challenges this view of the Middle East as an extension of the global conflict. The failure of the accord of both superpowers to avoid war even once regional superpower competition in the Middle East had ceased must give rise to the question: Do regional conflicts have their own dynamic? Working from this assumption, the book examines local-regional constraints of Middle East conflict and how, through escalation and the involvement of extra-regional powers, such conflicts acquire an international dimension. The theory of a regional subsystem is employed as a framework for conceptualising this interplay between regional and international factors in Tibi's examination of the Middle East wars in the period 1967-91. Tibi also provides an outlook into the future of conflict in the Middle East in the aftermath of the most recent Gulf War.

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