Author: Huband, Mark
Title: Brutal Truths, Fragile Myths : Power Politics and Western Adventurism in the Arab World
Description: Boulder [CO], Westview Press, (2004). orig.boards, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, xvii,331 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Soldier-kings and potentates : rule and misrule in the Arab world -- Sea breeze, desert wind : culture, identity, and Arabism -- God and the maverick : Osama Bin Laden and the Islamist challenge -- Al-Qaeda :the Arab world and global terror -- By the rivers of Babylon : Arabs, Muslims, and the invasion of Iraq -- Brutal truths, fragile myths : human rights and the legacies of terror -- Diamonds and rust : the new economics of the Arab world -- Roads to Jerusalem : Israel and Palestine -- A crossroads on Arab street : American power and the Middle East.

Keywords: Middle East Politics, Political History, , , , , , ,