Product Description

Now in its second edition, this popular text presents a comprehensive and balanced analysis of the international politics of the Middle East. Part I provides a historical framework, Part II looks at major themes in international relations and applies them to the Middle East, and Part III examines region-specific conflicts and issues. Featuring carefully edited contributions from international experts, this volume offers students essential background information and also gives them access to the most current material and perspectives.
Fully revised and updated, the second edition of International Relations of the Middle East features two new chapters--on the nature of Islam and the war in Iraq--and adopts a wider, more current focus on security throughout. It also integrates additional coverage of the role of the media, the U.S. war on terror, and the transnational phenomena of Islamic radicalism.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65371 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Review
Louise Fawcett presents us with a detailed and fascinating study of post World War II and post Cold War diplomacy in the Middle East...This is an excellent book for courses in international relations and diplomacy. A.J. Abraham, John Jay College (CUNY) (Review of previous edition)

About the Author

Dr. Louise Fawcett is a Fellow and Lecturer in Politics at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford.

Customer Reviews

Well balanced scholarship
I have assigned this book to my course on foreign policy of the Middle East. I have done so specifically because it includes chapters written by some of the scholars known as Isreal's New Historians. Indivuals such Eugene Rogan and Avi Shlaim.

For the last twenty years Isreal's new historians have deconstructed a large number of Zionist myths using Isreal's own state archives. These have included facts about Isreal's singularly primary responsibility for creating the Palestinian refugee problem and Isreal's intransigence in face of the willingness of Arab states to negotiate peace with Isreal as early as 1949.

The works of Isreal's New Historians represents the interests of individual scholars in truth and sometimes justice. They represent the quality of debate taking place inside Isreal and in Europe in a sharp contrast to narrow, self serving, and mean spirited slogans that so often pass for Middle East sholarship in the US.

I have found my students appreciating the challenging viwes presented in Fawcett's book, often walking away with greater appreciation of the complexities of political issues.

I recomand this book very highly.

Excellent Book
It's an outstanding book that disscusses complex perspectives from the Middle East into an easy way. We could call it: Mastering the Middle East for Dummies!

This book is superb.
Kindly disregard the review of this book that is critical of it. If you note, that person did not even read the book, and simply levels ad hominem, personal attacks on the contributors to the book.

I used this as a textbook for my "Middle East in International Politics since World War I" class - it was incredibly holistic, fair and balanced, and a great primer for any one interested in this region. I highly recommend it.