TY  - BOOK
AU  - Al-Rodhan,Nayef R.F.
AU  - Herd,Graeme P.
AU  - Watanabe,Lisa
TI  - Critical turning points in the Middle East: 1915 - 2015 
SN  - 9780230251502 (hardback)
AV  - 439 DS 63.1 A316c 2011
U1  - 956.04 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1945-
KW  - 1914-1945
KW  - Medio Oriente
KW  - Política y gobierno
KW  - 1945
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
N1  - Includes index; Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- The Historical Legacy -- The Rise and Fall of the Golden Era -- The First Critical Turning Point -- 1915-22 -- The Second Critical Turning Point -- 1948 -- The Third Critical Turning Point -- 1967 -- The Fourth Critical Turning Point -- 1979 -- The Fifth Critical Turning Point -- 1987-91 -- The Sixth Critical Turning Point -- 2001 -- Implications for a Potential Critical Seventh Turning Point -- 2011-15
N2  - "This book takes a novel look at the modern Middle East through the prisms of six cascading negative critical turning points. It identifies the seeds of a potential seventh in the collective dignity deficits generated by poor governance paradigms and exacerbated by geopolitical competition for the region's natural resources"--
ER  -