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The Gulf Conflict and International Relations.
Title:
The Gulf Conflict and International Relations.
Author:
Matthews, Ken.
ISBN:
9780203359549
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction: the Middle East and the study of international relations -- The Middle East in historical context -- Crisis: the provocation and the protagonists -- The United Nations and the Gulf conflict -- The diplomacy of crisis -- The Gulf conflict and international law -- The laws of war and the Gulf conflict -- Morality and the Gulf conflict -- The economic dimension of the Gulf conflict -- War, strategy and the Gulf conflict -- The aftermath -- Appendices -- Gazetteer of states involved in the Gulf crisis -- Chronology of the Gulf conflict -- Maps -- Documents -- Statistics of the Gulf War -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
This book provides a comprehensive analysis and review of the major events and the leading actors of the Gulf War. Copies of key documents and essential factual information build up a picture of the realities of war in the Middle East but the material is set in a strong theoretical framework. This allows the author to see the conflict within the context of the international system and to relate it to the changes of the post-cold-war world. Matthews looks at the shifts in international order which dictated the nature of the international response to the war, but also at the new conditions created by the war itself. What scope is there for Arab socialism after the fall of European socialism? Has the conflict made Israel stronger or weaker? Can the UN be entrusted with the post of global peace-keeper?.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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