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“karson fowler”

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  • Habib Bourghiba and the Creation of Islamic Tunisia

    by Karson Fowler ...
    This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Habib Bourguiba's leadership in Tunisia, focusing on his role in shaping the country's modern identity, governance, and relationship between secularism and Islam. From his early involvement in Tunisia's nationalist movement to his presidency and the reforms he implemented, Bourguiba emerged as a transformative figure whose policies of secularism, ... Read more

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  • The First Gulf War: A Comprehensive History (1991)

    by Karson Fowler ...
    The First Gulf War (1990-1991), also known as Operation Desert Storm, was a pivotal moment in modern history, reshaping the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East and the global order. This book examines the complex series of events, both before and after the war, that led to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the subsequent international response, and the long-lasting consequences of the conflict. ... Read more

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  • State and Society in Iran under Riza Shah (1921–1941)

    by Karson Fowler ...
    This book examines the complex and transformative history of Iran under the rule of Reza Shah Pahlavi (1921–1941) and the subsequent political, social, and ideological shifts that culminated in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It explores the rise of Reza Shah, his efforts to modernize and centralize Iran, and the authoritarian methods he employed to reshape the country, including his push for ... Read more

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  • Islam and the Arab Awakening

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    One of the most important developments in the modern history of the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring began in Tunisia in December 2010, bringing down dictators, sparking a civil war in Libya, and igniting a bloody uprising in Syria. Its long-term repercussions in Egypt and elsewhere remain unclear. Now one of the world's leading Islamic thinkers examines and explains it, in this searching, ... Read more

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  • 7 Deadly Scenarios

    A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century

    by Andrew Krepinevich ...
    A global pandemic finds millions swarming across the U.S. border. Major American cities are leveled by black-market nukes. China’s growing civil unrest ignites a global showdown. Pakistan’s collapse leads to a hunt for its nuclear weapons. What if the worst that could happen actually happens? How will we respond? Are we prepared?These are the questions that Andrew F. Krepinevich asks—and answers ... Read more

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  • Paradise Beneath Her Feet

    How Women Are Transforming the Middle East

    by Isobel Coleman ...
    Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles TimesInthis timely and important book, Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men across the Middle East are working within Islam to fight for women’s rights in a ... Read more

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  • The Accidental Guerrilla : Fighting Small Wars In The Midst Of A Big One

    by David Kilcullen ...
    David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the surge." Now, in The Accidental Guerrilla, Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War ... Read more

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  • Temptations of Power

    Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East

    by Shadi Hamid ...
    In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality, religious freedoms, and other norms that Western democracies take for granted? Nowhere have such considerations become more relevant than ... Read more

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  • The Accidental Guerrilla

    Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

    by David Kilcullen ...
    David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the Surge," now recognized as a dramatic ... Read more

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  • Zero-Sum Victory

    What We're Getting Wrong About War

    by Christopher D. Kolenda ...
    2021 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner for War & HistoryWhy have the major post-9/11 US military interventions turned into quagmires? Despite huge power imbalances in the United States' favor, significant capacity-building efforts, and repeated tactical victories by what many observers call the world's best military, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq turned intractable. The US government's fixation on ... Read more

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  • Lebanon

    The Politics of a Penetrated Society

    by Tom Najem ...
    Series series The Contemporary Middle East
    In a time of great political change and unrest in the Middle East, this highly topical text offers a succinct account of the contemporary political environment in Lebanon. Tom Najem provides both a developed understanding of the pre-civil war system and an analysis of how circumstances resulting from the civil war combined with essential pre-war elements to define politics in Lebanon ... Read more

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