Published 2017
Table of Contents:
“…Introduction -- Menacing Aridity -- Between the Mediterranean and the Desert -- "Levantine" and "Syrian" Climates -- Overexploited Water Resources -- The Deterioration of the Environment -- Foreign Domination -- The Ottoman Empire: An Apparent Modernity -- Communitarianism -- European Imperialisms -- The Franco-British Partition -- The State of Greater Lebanon -- Mandatory Palestine -- Ephemeral States -- National Constructs -- Arab Nationalism and the Struggle against Communitarianism -- Reorganisation of the Transportation Network after Independence -- The Administrative Network in the Service of Centralisation -- Syrian Nation-Building and Baʿathism -- Lebanon: The Triumph of Laissez-Faire and Communitarianism -- Jordan: An Arabian Monarchy -- Population and Development -- A Dense and Urbanised Population -- Uncontrolled Population Growth -- An Educated Population -- The Increasing Participation of Women in the Economy -- Waves of Refugees -- Demographic Issues and Nation-Building -- A Fragile Economy -- Commerce, Family-Owned Businesses, and the Fear of the State -- A Threatened Farming Sector -- An Industry Victimised by Bureaucracy and East Asia -- Uncertain Tourism -- The Energy Challenge -- Hydrocarbons Bypassing the
Near East -- The Marginalisation of the Levantine Coastline in the
Near East -- A Growing Dependence on the Petro-Monarchies of the Gulf -- The Urban Archipelago of the
Near East -- An Urban Network Dominated by Four Metropolises -- Damascus Devours its Gardens -- Amman, Capital of an Emirate Without Oil -- Beirut, A Shattered City -- Aleppo, A City Reactivated by an Open Economy -- Palestine Partitioned -- Territories and Populations -- High Densities and Urbanisation -- The Demographic Battle -- An Aided and Controlled Economy -- Unemployment and Poverty -- The Service Sector Domination of Employment -- The Partition of Palestine 1936-49 -- The Partition of the Occupied Territories -- Jewish Colonisation -- The Judaisation of Jerusalem -- The Geopolitics of the
Near East -- The Arab-Israeli Conflict: From One Cold War to Another -- Water and the Arab-Israeli Conflict -- The Golan Heights or the Alsace-Lorraine of Syria -- The American Strategy -- Lebanon: A Buffer State -- Turkey's Resurgence -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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