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Addresses the controversial but urgent question, why is the Middle East so dysfunctional? And what can be done about it? Argues for a total reappraisal of what realpolitik means.
Synopsis
As Barack Obama seeks to chart a new course in American foreign policy, the author addresses the controversial but urgent question: why is the Middle East so dysfunctional? And what can be done about it? He looks at why conflict, despotism and sectarianism continue to flourish in the Arab world whilst as they decline everywhere else.