By Ellen Lust
The fourteenth variation of the center East brings vital new insurance to this finished, balanced, and fantastically researched textual content. there's extensive assurance of significant advancements equivalent to the continuing clash in Syria, carrying on with tensions among Israel and Palestine and the manifold repercussions of the Arab Spring uprisings.
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This, of course, makes the job of an analyst more difficult. If basic data about literacy rates in Yemen, employment in Libya, religious affiliation in Lebanon, commercial transactions in Egypt, and many other dimensions of demography, economy, and society are actually closer to guesswork than the result of systematic censuses, surveys, or empirical research, how reliable is the information we think we have about less concrete or visible questions, such as political attitudes, corruption, or military budgets?
Small wonder exasperation and resentment fill the air. And, as you will see, there are many reasons for this inability to realize the hopes and dreams of generations in the Middle East and North Africa: the historical role of outside powers, notably Europe, and then the Soviet Union and the United States, in privileging some local communities over others and in prizing stability over progress; the economic distortions and political compromises occasioned by the vast wealth born of global reliance on petroleum to fuel the world’s industrial economy; the negligent social and economic policies of governments more accountable to external patrons, including other governments, both international and regional, and international financial institutions, than to their own people; the stagnant labor markets ill-suited to absorbing burgeoning populations; the self-regarding, incompetent and sometimes corrupt elites, protective of their privileges and reluctant to widen access to essential goods and services, much less to opportunities for genuine change.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015045140 | ISBN 9781506329284(pbk. : alk. gov/2015045140 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Acquisitions Editor: Carrie Brandon Editorial Assistant: Zachary Hoskins Production Editor: Laura Barrett Copy Editor: Diane DiMura Typesetter: C&M Digitals (P) Ltd. Proofreaders: Eleni-Maria Georgiou and Theresa Kay Indexer: Teddy Diggs Cover Designer: Janet Kiesel Marketing Manager: Amy Whitaker Brief Contents Boxes, Figures, Tables, and Maps About the Editor Contributors Foreword Preface I.