This text takes up the story of M.E.Yapp's previous volume in the series, The Making of the Modern Near East, 1792-1923, and surveys the history of the region from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the present day. Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, North and South Yemen and the Gulf States. from within the region and can only be understood by study of internal forces. In addition examines the extraordinary stability of the state system that emerged...