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... civil war Islamic State Barack Obama Russia Vladimir Putin Bashar al-Assad Turkey Libya Iraq Iran Middle East 337 The single most important external factor in the Syrian war s trajectory was the set of foreign policy beliefs Obama held well before the first shot was fired...

... of these issues are complicated by the Iran deal. The Middle East s Spreading Morass AUGUSTUS RICHARD NORTON There are myriad explanations for the tumult that grips today s Middle East. One might begin with the boundaries drawn largely by France and Britain following World War I, or the subsequent impact...

..., written with honesty, passion, and cour-age. Mona Eltahawy begins by dedicating her volume to the girls of the Middle East and North Africa, advising them: Be immodest, rebel, disobey, and know you deserve to be free. She should know. An Egyptian who spent part of her youth in Saudi Arabia, she grew...

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... of the University of California Adam Luedtke public impulse immigration European Europe Policy policymaking making control cooperation nation sovereignty violence order Middle East North Africa EU frontex ethnic conflict Cold War national identity xenophobia Schengen Balkan...

...Fawaz A. Gerges There is no simple or quick solution to rid the Middle East of ISIS because it is a manifestation of the breakdown of state institutions and the spread of sectarian fires in the region. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California...

... of California Augustus Richard Norton Obama middle east headache Syria Iraq Iran allies policy hallmark revolution uprising qaddafi mccain critic isis isil Islamic state airstrikes campaign arab security council Netanyahu israel apartheid Kerry Saudi PERSPECTIVE...

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... of international gov- ernance and the inevitable evolution of a more pacific era. This new internationalism was on well- publicized display at the 1899 and 1907 Hague peace conferences, where Western delegates met in the presence of a few invited represen- tatives of the Middle and Far Easts to discuss...

... their initial efforts and had absolutely reached the end of their emotional tethers. It is also no coincidence that it was in the more embattled empires of the east in Austro-Hungary, Russia, and the Ottoman lands that military and politi- cal leaderships took out their pent-up frustra- tions and projected...

... and the growing self-assertion of Japan in East Asia and the Pacific, but also through subtle transformations in the colonial domain. At one level, Britain and France engaged in the last great colonial scramble as they divided up the for- mer German colonies in Africa and Asia as well as the Ottoman provinces...

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...). Is a rising China today akin to a ris- ing Germany in 1914, as a declining United States is to Britain a century ago? Might World War III break out in Europe owing to Vladimir Putin s moves in Ukraine and possible miscalculations in Moscow or in Western capitals or erupt in the Middle East from proxy wars...

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... east economic soft power Ataturk Some books are published with exquisitely bad timing. That could certainly be said of Soner Cagaptay s The Rise of Turkey. Presented as the latest word on the state of the nation, this slim volume by a Washington think- tank hand has been overtaken by events...