Politics of Chaos in the Middle East

by Olivier Roy

Book Overview

Olivier Roy argues that the unintended and unforeseen consequences of the "war on terror" have artificially conflated conflicts in the Middle East such that they appear to be the expression of a widespread "Muslim anger" against the West. In this new book he seeks to restore the individual logic and dynamics of each of these conflicts, the better to understand the widespread political discontent that sustains them. Instead of two opposed sides, an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199326509
• ISBN13: 9780199326501
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.1"