Table of Contents

Introduction Britain and the Arabs, 1914-20 Britain, France, and the Zionists, 1914-20 The Palestine Quagmire, 1920-39 The Emergence of Transjordan, 1920-28 France, Syria, and the Emergence of Lebanon, 1920-36 Britain and Iraq, 1918-39 Transition in the Arabian Peninsula, 1910-36 The British Protectorate in Eygpt, 1914-38 Turmoil in Transcaucasia, 1917-21 Developments in Iran, 1914-37 The World War II Period, 1939-45 The Geopolitics of Oil, 1914-47 Prelude to the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-48 The First Arab-Israeli War and Its Aftermath, 1948-52 The Suez Crisis, 1951-57 The Nasserist Era, 1952-67 Inter-Arab Rivalry and the 1967 War The Torturous Road to Camp David, 1967-79 Crisis and Conflict in Lebanon, 1970-85 Conflict in the Persian Gulf Region, 1973-99 At Century's End Bibliography

About the Author

MARTIN SICKER is a private consultant and lecturer who has served as a senior executive in the US government and has taught political science at the American University and George Washington University. Dr. Sicker has written extensively in the field of political science and international affairs. He is the author of fourteen previous books, including the companion volumes, The Pre-Islamic Middle East, The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of Vienna, and The Islamic World in Decline: From the Treaty of Karlowitz to the Disintegration of the Ottoman State (Praeger, 2000).

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?Sicker has utilized and synthesized the most competent (and recent) historical research, presenting a comprehensive study of this vital and consequential aspect of European power politics. He clearly explains how those policies shaped the map of the region and created many of its still-unresolved problems....this is an excellent supplement....Upper-division undergraduate students and above.?-Choice

"Sicker has utilized and synthesized the most competent (and recent) historical research, presenting a comprehensive study of this vital and consequential aspect of European power politics. He clearly explains how those policies shaped the map of the region and created many of its still-unresolved problems....this is an excellent supplement....Upper-division undergraduate students and above."-Choice