Discusses the future of the Middle East in our new, post-imperialist era. For each and every country and for the region as a whole, this explains, there is a range of alternative futures: at one end, cooperation and progress; at the other, a vicious circle of poverty and ignorance.
A century ago, as World War I got underway, the Middle East was dominated, as it had been for centuries, by the Ottoman Empire. This revised edition traces those changes and the ensuing history of the region through the rest of the twentieth century. It helps readers to understand its history and the way it affects present-day events.
