TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davidson,Christopher M.
TI  - Shadow wars: the secret struggle for the Middle East 
SN  - 9781786070012
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Oneworld Publications
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1979-
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -