Israel & Palestine, Human Geography, Sociology, Middle Eastern, Middle East, Social Sciences 

CASS SERIES: ISRAELI HISTORY, POLITICS AND SOCIETY 

Rethinking the Middle East runs counter to the received wisdom in modern Middle East studies. This discipline has been dominated by what may be termed a "culture of victimization"; it views the local populations of the Middle East Arabs in particular as the hapless victims of alien encroachment, and blames the region's endemic malaise on Western political and cultural imperialism. The author contends that the influence of the Great Powers has not been the primary force behind the region's political development, nor the main cause of its famous volatility. He argues that the main impetus has been provided by regional factors; and that even at their weakest point in modern history - during the final stages of the Ottoman Empire - the peoples in the Middle East have played an active role in the restructuring of their region. 

Rethinking the Middle East runs counter to the received wisdom in modern Middle East studies. This discipline has been dominated by what may be termed a "culture of victimization"; it views the local populations of the Middle East Arabs in particular as the hapless victims of alien encroachment, and blames the region's endemic malaise on Western political and cultural imperialism. The author contends that the influence of the Great Powers has not been the primary force behind the region's political development, nor the main cause of its famous volatility. He argues that the main impetus has been provided by regional factors; and that even at their weakest point in modern history - during the final stages of the Ottoman Empire - the peoples in the Middle East have played an active role in the restructuring of their region. - from Amzon 

CONTENTS
1. Why the middle East is so Volatile ....................................... P. 1

2. Reactive Imperialism:Brita ins Occupation of Egypt Revisited... P 15

3. Victim of Failed Aggressor: The Ottoman Entry into the........... P 30
first world war

4. Rethinking the Creation of the modern middle East ................ P 52

5.Cold War, Post-Cold war: Does it make a differences for the...... p. 71
middle East ?

6. The long Trails of Arab Antisemitism....................................... p. 97

7. The collusion that never was:King Abdullahi, the Jewish.............p. 107
Agency and the partition of Palestine

8. Were the Palestinian Expelled?.................................................p. 127

9. The Palestinians and the right of return.....................................p. 155

10. Rewriting Israel History..........................................................p. 169

11. Revisionists, Arabists and Pure Charlatans.................................p. 186

index......................................................................................... p. 205