دانلود کتاب غرب آسیا در جنگ

EVENTS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF WEST ASIA MAKE THE NEWS ALMOST ON A daily basis. These are usually stories of violence – civil conflicts, terrorist attacks, suicide bombings by religious extremists, and constant confrontations based on religious, sectarian and ethnic divisions. There are also occasions when regional or outside powers initiate major military attacks, using fierce firepower to kill or injure thousands of people in a few hours, or even low-key but lethal provocations – attacks on tankers, drone and missile attacks, state-sponsored assassinations – which keep the region tense and often at the edge of a major conflagration. We also read lurid accounts of matters relating to oil – the economics of demand and supply that has global implications, the extraordinary luxury it provides a few, the purchases of weaponry it facilitates, and the use of its revenues to still dissent and fuel war. This book seeks to piece together these diverse matters into a coherent narrative that would help make sense of the dynamics of the region – the political, religious, military, socio-economic and cultural dimensions that have shaped present-day alignments and divisions, and made the region seem so unstable and volatile. There are several villains here – monarchs, presidents, princes, senior officials – many of whom have worked together for cynical self-interest to reap short-term advantage, or occasionally use narrow understandings of religion to wreak havoc upon the doctrinal enemy. There are also heroes here – mostly unhonoured and unsung – who resist the violence and injustice heaped upon them. This is the story of those villains and those heroes.