Middle East: War and Politics - Collected essays (ed. Gumer G. Isaev & Alexander A. Sotnichenko)

There is hardly a region in the World which would boast of such a complicated and stunning path in the 20th century's global historical process as the Middle East actually had. Have being the Cradle of civilizations and monotheistic religions, where major cultural paradigms of mankind came into existence, by the end of the19th century this ancient area turned into a geopolitical and political backyard - an easy target for great powers' expansionist agenda.   

This book contains collected essays dedicated to the Middle East. Our understaniding of this term refers to three major subcivilizations which together predeterminate a single direction of the region's development. These are the Arab countries of Asa and Egypt, Turkey and Iran. Being reasonable enough to admit that we couldn't cover all countries and all issues in question, we have applied a problematic approach. The history of the Arab countries and Israel is examined through the prism of their conflict with each other, Iran iz analyzed as a society heavily influenced by the Islamic revolution and its immediate consequences while Turkey provides a prominent case of modernization.

The book focuses on the pecularities of the Iranian, Turkish and Arab political modernization in the second half of the 20th century.

Middle East: War and Politics/ ed. Gumer G. Isaev & Alexander A. Sotnichenko, Moscow: The Mardjani Publishing House, 2010 ISBN 978-5-903715-27-5