The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Wars - Couverture souple

Ovendale, Ritchie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0582063698 ISBN 13 : 9780582063693

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 1992

Synopsis

This second edition views the complex and controversial history of the Arab-Israeili conflict. Completely revised and updated it takes into account current events in the area such as the Palestinian uprising, (the intifada) and the Gulf War. The text aims to provide a balanced introduction to this immensely complex and controversial subject. For this edition it the text has been completely redesigned and reset for clarity and aims to incorporate the very latest research in the field. and international politics and Middle Eastern Studies. Professional readers such as journalists, politicians and business-people as well as the informed general reader should also find it useful.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Praise for previous editions:

‘Ovendale does an admirable job of making sense of these diverse currents, and turns the history of the conflict into a coherent, readable narrative.’
The Economist

‘Although Ritchie Ovendale’s book is short, it is extremely well documented...If one wants to understand the origins of the Arab-Israeli wars, one must read this brief book.’
Hatem I. Hussaini, American-Arab Affairs

Of all the troubles affecting the modern world few are as topical, deep rooted and intractable as the Arab-Israeli conflict. For this region, an understanding of the past is vital to an understanding of the present. Ritchie Ovendale’s classic study of the roots of the conflict is now updated for a fourth time and considers events until 2003.

Ovendale begins this timely new edition by analysing anti-Semitism in modern Europe, the ‘Arab awakening’ and continues through to the present, covering the creation of the state of Israel, the 1967 and October 1973 wars, the first Palestinian uprising and peace processes of the 1980 and 1990s. This fourth edition also includes a major new chapter on the ‘al-Aqsa intifada’, as the second Palestinian uprising has become known. Erupting in 2000 and stemming from disillusionment with the Oslo accords, this intifada has added to the ever increasing numbers killed in the conflict. The latest Anglo-American ‘road map’ for peace is outlined to bring the story up to date.

This highly-regarded history gives a balanced and judicious introduction to this immensely complex and controversial subject, weaving different strands of the story into a single coherent narrative, thus making it essential reading for all students studying conflict in the Middle East.

Ritchie Ovendale is formerly Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

His many publications include The Longman Companion to the Middle East Since 1914 (Longman, second edition, 1998) and Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave, 1998).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Présentation de l'éditeur

In few areas of the modern world is an explanation of the past more vital to an understanding of the present than the Arab-Israeli conflict. Much has happened since Ritchie Ovendale's lucid and non-partisan account was successfully launched in 1984. This new second edition brings the on-going story up to date, covering events from before the First World War through to the intifada and the aftermath of the Gulf War of 1991. It remains the ideal introduction to a subject that is never far from the world's headlines.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0582063698
• ISBN 13: 9780582063693
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 328
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible