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Author(s): James L Gelvin

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Year: 2017

Language: english

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The New Middle East
What Everyone Needs to Know R

In the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, the American invasion of Iraq, and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11, a new Middle East has emerged. The Syrian civil war has displaced half the country’s population, and ISIS and other jihadi groups thrive in the political vacuum there and in Iraq, setting a new standard for political violence. Meanwhile, regimes in Egypt and Bahrain have become even more repressive after the uprisings there, and Libya and Yemen have virtually ceased to exist as states. The hallmarks of this new Middle East are rebellion and repression, proxy wars, sectarian strife, the rise of the Islamic State, and intraregional polarization. International and regional actors stoke the flames, with the United States and Russia seeking to reposition themselves in the region and Saudi Arabia and Iran vying for supremacy. In the long term, perils including climate change, food and water insecurity, and population growth, along with bad governance and stagnant economies, will determine the destiny of the region. In The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know®, renowned Middle East scholar James L. Gelvin explains all these developments and more in a concise question-and-answer format. Outlining the social, political, and economic contours of the New Middle East, he illuminates the current crisis in the region and explores how the region will continue to change in the decades to come.

Table contents:

1 Before the Deluge: The Middle East, 1945–2011
What is the Middle East?
Who lives in the Middle East?
What is the Middle East state system?
Do the states in the Middle East have anything in common?
What was political life like in the Middle East up through 2010?
How did state formation in the region breed autocracies in the Middle East?
How did great power meddling in the region foster autocracies in the Middle East?
How has the exploitation of oil affected the Middle East?
What is the “New Middle East”?
2 The Arab Uprisings and Their Fallout
How did the Arab uprisings begin?
How appropriate is the term “Arab Spring” to describe the uprisings?
What deep-seated factors made Arab states vulnerable to popular anger?
What contingent factors made Arab states vulnerable to popular anger?
What were the uprisings like in Tunisia and Egypt?
What did almost everyone get wrong about the Egyptian Revolution?
Why have Islamic movements been so popular in the Middle East?
Why were uprisings in Yemen and Libya so violent?
How could regimes in Bahrain and Syria hold on so doggedly?
Why did the uprisings leave most Arab monarchies relatively unscathed?
What were protests in hybrid regimes like?
Were the Arab uprisings bound to fail?
What were the overall effects of the uprisings that began in 2010–2011?
3 The Syria Imbroglio
How did the Syrian uprising begin?
How did the uprising in Syria differ from the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt?
What was political and economic life like in Syria before the uprising?
Who is Bashar al-Assad?
How did the regime militarize the uprising?
How did the regime sectarianize the uprising?
What foreign assistance has the Syrian government received?
Who supports the opposition?
How has foreign intervention prolonged Syria’s agony?
Who is the Syrian opposition?
How bad is the damage to Syria?
How has the Syrian uprising affected Syria’s neighbors?
How will the Syrian civil war end?
4 The Rise and Decline of ISIS
What is ISIS?
Where did ISIS come from?
What does ISIS believe?
Is ISIS apocalyptic?
Is ISIS “Islamic”?
Why was ISIS able to conquer so much territory so quickly?
Who joins ISIS?
Where has ISIS spread?
What is life in the Islamic State like?
Why did the United States undertake military action against ISIS?
Why did ISIS begin its global campaign of terrorist attacks?
What impact has ISIS had on the Middle East?
What does the future hold for the ISIS caliphate?
What happens to ISIS once its caliphate has disappeared?
5 Patrons, Proxies, and Freelancers: The International Relations of the New Middle East
How much did US strategy in the Middle East change under Barack Obama?
What has happened between the United States and its partners in the region?
Did Obama have a strategy for the Middle East?
What was America’s policy toward Iran under Obama?
What role does oil play in the New Middle East?
What are the roots of the Saudi-Iranian competition?
What is Turkey’s role in the New Middle East?
Whatever happened to the Israel-Palestine conflict?
6 Human Security in the New Middle East
What is “human security”?
How do population pressures affect the Middle East?
What are the effects of diminishing water supplies on the Middle East?
What is the impact of war on the environment in the Middle East?
How might climate change affect the Middle East?
What is the refugee crisis all about?
What is the status of women in the Middle East?
How poor is the Middle East?
What is the state of human poverty in the non–Gulf Cooperation Council Arab world?
What is education like in the Arab world?
Can human security be measured?
What are the greatest threats to human security in the New Middle East?
What might the recent history of the Middle East teach us about the possibility of overcoming the lack of good governance?
Notes
Further Reading
Index