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The Middle East has changed clearly, substantially, and dramatically during the last decade. Yet scholarly and public understanding lags far behind these events. This book explains why the previous era came to end, giving an historical and political summation of the region. Three interlinked themes are crucial to the book. First, a reinterpretation of the era of upheaval the Middle East has just passed through. During that period, many Arabs believed that some leader, country, or radical movement would unite the region, solving all its problems. Second, an evaluation of how the historical experience of the period between the 1940s and the 1990s undermined the old system, making change necessary. Third, an analysis of the region today that helps explain future developments, in what the author terms the Era of Reluctant Pragmatism, as the Middle Eastern societies decide their relationships to the West.… (més)
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Only when I traveled to Europe a couple of decades ago, did I discover that, contrary to what my teachers taught me, George Orwell was not a villain.
---Issam Mirzu, Syrian dissident, at a civil society meeting in Damascus, January 12, 2001
Often, some people astonish me when they refrain from conducting an analysis and tend ti improvise positions that are, usually, verbal and sentimental, are not based on the developments, and do not solve the problems.
---President Bashar al-Asad of Syria, July 16, 2001
Benefit from your own lessons lest you should be burdened with the accumulated price you pay for them and then you will get drowned.
---President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, August 8, 2001
Dedicatòria
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This book is dedicated to those who struggle for real freedom and democracy in the Arab world and Iran.
Primeres paraules
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The Middle East is the world's most controversial region.
It was the end of an era for a young century.
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The Middle East has changed clearly, substantially, and dramatically during the last decade. Yet scholarly and public understanding lags far behind these events. This book explains why the previous era came to end, giving an historical and political summation of the region. Three interlinked themes are crucial to the book. First, a reinterpretation of the era of upheaval the Middle East has just passed through. During that period, many Arabs believed that some leader, country, or radical movement would unite the region, solving all its problems. Second, an evaluation of how the historical experience of the period between the 1940s and the 1990s undermined the old system, making change necessary. Third, an analysis of the region today that helps explain future developments, in what the author terms the Era of Reluctant Pragmatism, as the Middle Eastern societies decide their relationships to the West.