1979, the Year That Shaped the Middle East

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The Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the continuing US-Iraqi confrontation, the changing political dynamics in Iran, recent Pakistani-Indian hostilities, and Osama bin Laden — all of these have one important common denominator: significant strands of their origins can be traced to the tumultuous year of 1979. This books offers a new paradigm for studying modern Middle East history by arguing that the year 1979 is perhaps the most important watershed in the post-WWII Middle East. In that year alone, the Middle ...
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The Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the continuing US-Iraqi confrontation, the changing political dynamics in Iran, recent Pakistani-Indian hostilities, and Osama bin Laden — all of these have one important common denominator: significant strands of their origins can be traced to the tumultuous year of 1979. This books offers a new paradigm for studying modern Middle East history by arguing that the year 1979 is perhaps the most important watershed in the post-WWII Middle East. In that year alone, the Middle East witnessed the culmination of the Iranian revolution, the conclusion of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, all having long-term repercussions that are abundantly present to this day in Middle East society and politics, and in the relations between the Middle East and the United States.

Author Biography: David W. Lesch is associate professor of history at Trinity University in San Antonio. His publications include Syria and the United States: Eisenhower's Cold War in the Middle East (Westview Press, 1992) and The Middle East and the United States: A Historical and Political Reassessment (editor, Westview Press, second edition, 1999).

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Editorial Reviews

Robert O. Freedman
Covers the key events in the Middle East since 1979 in a comprehensive and highly readable manner.
Steve A. Yetiv
1979 offers interesting insight about the Middle East from both a historical and [a] political perspective.
William B. Quandt
Well researched and reliable.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780813339429
  • Publisher: Westview Press
  • Publication date: 8/1/2001
  • Pages: 188
  • Product dimensions: 6.15 (w) x 9.25 (h) x 0.62 (d)

Meet the Author

David W. Lesch is professor of history at Trinity University, San Antonio. His publications include Syria and the United States: Eisenhower’s Cold War in the Middle East (Westview, 1992), 1979: The Year That Shaped the Modern Middle East (Westview, 2001), and The Lion of Damascus : Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria (Yale, 2005).

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