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Shadow wars : the secret struggle for the Middle East / Christopher Davidson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Oneworld Publications, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: xiii, 672 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781786070012
  • 1786070014
Subject(s):
Contents:
Counter-revolution: a pattern emerges -- Cold war, oil war: America takes over -- The road to al-Qaeda: the CIA's baby -- Allied to jihad: useful idiots -- The Arab Spring: a system threatened -- Plan "A": Islamists versus the deep state -- Plan "B": a fake Arab Spring -- Enter the Islamic State: a phantom menace -- The Islamic State: a strategic asset -- The Islamic State: a gift that keeps giving -- Epilogue: Keeping the wheel turning.
Summary: Describes 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.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 956.05 D252 Available 33111008488302
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For more than a century successive US and UK governments have sought to thwart nationalist, socialist and pro-democracy movements in the Middle East. Through the Cold War, the 'War on Terror' and the present era defined by the Islamic State, the Western powers have repeatedly manipulated the region's most powerful actors to ensure the security of their own interests and, in doing so, have given rise to religious politics, sectarian war, bloody counter-revolutions and now one of the most brutal incarnations of Islamic extremism ever seen.

This is the utterly compelling, systematic dissection of Western interference in the Middle East. Christopher Davidson exposes the dark side of our foreign policy - dragging many disturbing facts out into the light for the first time. Most shocking for us today is his assertion that US intelligence agencies continue to regard the Islamic State, like al-Qaeda before it, as a strategic but volatile asset to be wielded against their enemies. Provocative, alarming and unrelenting, Shadow Wars demands to be read - now.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-650) and index.

Counter-revolution: a pattern emerges -- Cold war, oil war: America takes over -- The road to al-Qaeda: the CIA's baby -- Allied to jihad: useful idiots -- The Arab Spring: a system threatened -- Plan "A": Islamists versus the deep state -- Plan "B": a fake Arab Spring -- Enter the Islamic State: a phantom menace -- The Islamic State: a strategic asset -- The Islamic State: a gift that keeps giving -- Epilogue: Keeping the wheel turning.

Describes 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.

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