© Columbia University Press
The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East
Paper, 160 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70033-7
$17.95
March, 2008
Cloth, 160 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-70032-0
$24.95
Contents:
Introduction: The War on Terror: between Fourth World War and Optical Illusion
I. Who is the Enemy? Where is the Enemy?
The obsession with Iraq
An illusion: the weight of lobbies in the decision to invade Iraq
The project to reform the greater Middle East
The failure of the top-down democratization policy
The return to a policy of containment or the eradication of Islamism
II. The Middle East: Atomization of Conflicts and New Fault Lines
The three traumas of the Arab Middle East
The political imaginaire in crisis: between nationalism, clannism, and supranationalism
From pan-Arabism to forms of pan-Islamism
A tectonic upheaval: Shiites against Sunnis
III. Iran, Between the Bomb and Bombardment
The Ahmadinejad phenomenon, parentheses or continuity?
An American bombardment?
IV. And meanwhile, Al Qaeda