The Age of Jihad

Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East

Patrick Cockburn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

480 Seiten

2017
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-78663-042-1 (ISBN)

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From the award-winning author of The Rise of Islamic State, the essential story of the Middle East's disintegration

Cockburn was the first Western journalist to warn of the dangers posed by Islamic State. His originality and breadth of vision make The Age of Jihad the most in-depth analysis of the regional crisis in the Middle East to date.

2001 heralded a new age of disintegration in the Middle East. This has had a murderous impact on the people who live there but also the world beyond. Beginning with the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, Cockburn explores the vast geopolitical struggle that is the Sunni-Shia conflict, a clash that shapes the war on terror, western military interventions, the evolution of the insurgency, the civil wars in Yemen, Libya and Syria, the Arab Spring, the fall of regional dictators, and the rise of Islamic State.

Patrick Cockburn is a Middle East correspondent for the Independent and has previously worked for the Financial Times. He has written three books on Iraq's recent history, including the National Book Circle Awards-shortlisted The Occupation. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006 and the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009. More recently he has been awarded Foreign Commentator of the Year at the 2013 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year at the 2014 British Journalism Awards and Foreign Reporter of the Year at the 2014 Press Awards.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.11.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	511 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-78663-042-7 / 1786630427
ISBN-13	978-1-78663-042-1 / 9781786630421
Zustand	Neuware