Shadow WarsShadow Wars
the Secret Struggle for the Middle East
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Book, 2016
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Current format, Book, 2016, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsDescribes how the failure of the "Arab Spring" lead to religious politics, sectarian war, bloody counter-revolutions, and brutal Islamic extremism, placing the blame for these modern state-building disasters on Western intervention.
Describes what went wrong after 2011Æs Arab Spring which lead to religious politics, sectarian war, bloody counter-revolutions and brutal Islamic extremismùand places some of the blame for these modern state-building failures on successive United States and United Kingdom governments.
"This is the best and most informative book yet on the struggle for power among the US and Europe, Arab autocratic regimes, and these countries’ impoverished masses.... Highly recommended."—CHOICE Magazine
"Who are these people? Where did they come from? What do they want? SHADOW WARS makes the answers painfully, damningly clear... if some future solution is discovered, it'll be thanks to the path-clearing of books like this one."
—The Christian Science Monitor
”Davidson is especially dogged at ‘following the money’—e.g., the rise of crony-capitalist networks in the Gulf monarchies and the financing of al-Qaida and Islamic State… An exhaustively researched account.”
—Kirkus Reviews
The brief euphoria that followed the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011 quickly gave way to religious politics, sectarian war, and the most brutal incarnations of Islamic extremism ever seen. In the aftermath, people around the world once more lamented the Middle East’s inability to build functioning modern states. However, the reality is that this turn of events fits firmly into a centuries-old pattern of uprisings and reactions involving not only the region’s elites and their opponents but also the interests of foreign powers.
Middle East expert Christopher M. Davidson makes the argument that the primary blame for the failure of the Arab Spring and the rise of Islamic extremists, including al-Qaeda and Islamic State, must rest with successive U.S. and U.K. governments. A systematic dissection of ongoing Western manipulations of the most powerful forces in the Middle East, Shadow Wars is a shocking book that demands to be read.
Describes what went wrong after 2011Æs Arab Spring which lead to religious politics, sectarian war, bloody counter-revolutions and brutal Islamic extremismùand places some of the blame for these modern state-building failures on successive United States and United Kingdom governments.
"This is the best and most informative book yet on the struggle for power among the US and Europe, Arab autocratic regimes, and these countries’ impoverished masses.... Highly recommended."—CHOICE Magazine
"Who are these people? Where did they come from? What do they want? SHADOW WARS makes the answers painfully, damningly clear... if some future solution is discovered, it'll be thanks to the path-clearing of books like this one."
—The Christian Science Monitor
”Davidson is especially dogged at ‘following the money’—e.g., the rise of crony-capitalist networks in the Gulf monarchies and the financing of al-Qaida and Islamic State… An exhaustively researched account.”
—Kirkus Reviews
The brief euphoria that followed the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011 quickly gave way to religious politics, sectarian war, and the most brutal incarnations of Islamic extremism ever seen. In the aftermath, people around the world once more lamented the Middle East’s inability to build functioning modern states. However, the reality is that this turn of events fits firmly into a centuries-old pattern of uprisings and reactions involving not only the region’s elites and their opponents but also the interests of foreign powers.
Middle East expert Christopher M. Davidson makes the argument that the primary blame for the failure of the Arab Spring and the rise of Islamic extremists, including al-Qaeda and Islamic State, must rest with successive U.S. and U.K. governments. A systematic dissection of ongoing Western manipulations of the most powerful forces in the Middle East, Shadow Wars is a shocking book that demands to be read.
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