THE GEOPOLITICAL POWDER KEG OF THE ARAB-MUSLIM WORLD (EL POLVORÍN GEOPOLÍTICO DEL MUNDO ÁRABE-MUSULMÁN)
Political Analysis Book In Amazon There are regions that concentrate, within a small space, all the contradictions of the modern world. The Middle East is, without any doubt, the densest and most stubborn of them all. With this book, Jesús Sánchez Rodríguez delivers a work of broad scope and encyclopedic ambition: an implacable X-ray of the five decades of upheavals that have turned the Arab-Muslim world into the great laboratory in which the most urgent questions of our time are being settled. Can democracy be implanted at the point of a bayonet? Is political Islamism compatible with pluralism? What happens when states created on the paper of a colonial agreement begin to disintegrate? The answers offered by Middle East are brutal, complex and, above all, indispensable. From the triple betrayal of Sykes-Picot, McMahon and Balfour —the incompatible promises that three empires made over the same territories— to the 2026 war between the United States, Israel and Iran that s...