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This was a doozy! A historical perspective of why the Middle East looks the way it does today. The Middle East used to be controlled by the Ottoman Empire. With its fall at the end of WWI, Turkey aligned itself as European and a power vacuum formed, which was quickly gobbled up by England, France, and Russia. Colonialism knows no limits and its consequences feed hatred and create chaos for generations
En el libro “A Peace to end all Peace”, Fromkin detalla todos los acontecimientos que llevaron a la caída del imperio otomano y su posterior división liderado por los poderes europeos, con sus consecuencias para los países, en su mayoría árabes, involucrados.
Ya han pasado más de 100 años desde esa división y el tema sigue siendo igual, sino más importante, que nunca.
A cualquiera que quiera entender la raíz del conflicto en medio oriente moderno a detalle, este libro es ideal.
Ya han pasado más de 100 años desde esa división y el tema sigue siendo igual, sino más importante, que nunca.
A cualquiera que quiera entender la raíz del conflicto en medio oriente moderno a detalle, este libro es ideal.
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Over 30 years old, "Peace" is as relevant today as it was the day of its publication. Understanding conflict in the Middle East is a daunting task when you approach it with little to no baggage like I did, but this book is a very good place to start. Despite being factually dense, it is quite enjoyable to read.
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Very timely, although this was published in late 80s. The conflict in the Middle East is ongoing and this book gives a well research and easy to understand history of the territories.
Read this, learn history, learn about the world.
Read this, learn history, learn about the world.
challenging
informative
medium-paced
Very informative, albeit with a strong British perspective, covering events during the war and up to 1922 when the modern boundaries were all but set. Nice basis for further reading of developments thereafter up to independence of Israel and further.
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A phenomenal political history of the breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the ruling of the newly created Middle-East divided among the French & British. It clearly sets the stage for the formation of the Middle-East we know today with Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia all springing forth from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire.
Connected through from the great-power politics - between Russia and Britain (the great game), the British and the French, Greek/Ottoman rivalry, Austro-Hungarian and German desires over the Balkans, and American involvement onto the international stage - the book brilliantly interweaves the contiuiningly changing actions and responses (and inferred responses) of all powers concerned as the First World War unfolds. The developing military and political situations across the Middle East and the Eastern Front are laid bare in the exposé of both the political backchannels, misunderstandings, betrayals and interference between domestic, regional and international quarrels.
This books clearly comes from the dominant perspective of internal British politics, but to me this is seen as quite understandable as the principle Great Power that takes upon itself the decision to carve up and attain as much of the Middle-East as possible. The book therefore does not have an equal distribution of internal dialogue from all powers concerned, but nonetheless includes a great amount of British, Ottoman/Turkic, French and (to a lesser extent) American politics. If one is looking for a 'internal' understanding (i.e. Turkish/Ottoman) understanding of its own Collapse, this is not the book. This book very specifically is situating the collapse of the Ottoman Empire within the larger scope of international politics divided among the beligerants of WW1 (Britian, France, America, Germany, Austro-Hungary, Russia/Soviet Union, Greece, Ottomans and some of the newly independent Balkan states)
A brilliantly written book which I would highly recommend with one caveat - not for those who know little of the time (early 20th century generally & WW1) as it is a highly detailed book which will undoubtedly lose those who are unfamiliar with names, names of places, and of the interchange between domestic, regional and international politics.
Connected through from the great-power politics - between Russia and Britain (the great game), the British and the French, Greek/Ottoman rivalry, Austro-Hungarian and German desires over the Balkans, and American involvement onto the international stage - the book brilliantly interweaves the contiuiningly changing actions and responses (and inferred responses) of all powers concerned as the First World War unfolds. The developing military and political situations across the Middle East and the Eastern Front are laid bare in the exposé of both the political backchannels, misunderstandings, betrayals and interference between domestic, regional and international quarrels.
This books clearly comes from the dominant perspective of internal British politics, but to me this is seen as quite understandable as the principle Great Power that takes upon itself the decision to carve up and attain as much of the Middle-East as possible. The book therefore does not have an equal distribution of internal dialogue from all powers concerned, but nonetheless includes a great amount of British, Ottoman/Turkic, French and (to a lesser extent) American politics. If one is looking for a 'internal' understanding (i.e. Turkish/Ottoman) understanding of its own Collapse, this is not the book. This book very specifically is situating the collapse of the Ottoman Empire within the larger scope of international politics divided among the beligerants of WW1 (Britian, France, America, Germany, Austro-Hungary, Russia/Soviet Union, Greece, Ottomans and some of the newly independent Balkan states)
A brilliantly written book which I would highly recommend with one caveat - not for those who know little of the time (early 20th century generally & WW1) as it is a highly detailed book which will undoubtedly lose those who are unfamiliar with names, names of places, and of the interchange between domestic, regional and international politics.