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    <title>Critical turning points in the Middle East</title>
    <subTitle>1915 - 2015</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Al-Rodhan, Nayef R. F.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Herd, Graeme P.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Watanabe, Lisa</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1974-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Palgrave Macmillan</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2011</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
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    <extent>xv, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>"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"--</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, Graeme Herd, Lisa Watanabe.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
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    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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    <topic>Medio Oriente</topic>
    <topic>Política y gobierno</topic>
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    <topic>POLITICAL SCIENCE / History &amp; Theory</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">439 DS 63.1 A316c 2011</classification>
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