Unlocking the Middle East

The Middle East, broadly defined, has long been a nodal point of US foreign policy. In a seemingly constant state of upheaval, the region lurches from crisis to crisis. Unlocking the Middle East brings together over three decades of work by Richard Falk, a leading observer of the region and analyst/critic of US policy toward it. Beginning with 1969 Lebanon, then giving a close and critical examination of the Iranian revolution of 1979, and moving through the final decades of the twentieth century to the second Palestinian uprising that opened the twenty-first century, Falk's prescient and comprehensive assessments provide valuable insight to the region's spiraling discontent. The book includes sections on the geopolitics of the region and US policy toward it, Islam in history and in newer political forms, the international law implications of the Lebanon war and the Iranian revolution, the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and much more. Richard Falk is the Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. His most recent book is Overcoming Global Terror: The World After September 11th. Jean Allain is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the American University in Cairo. He is the author of A Century of International Adjudication: The Rule of Law and Its Limits. History & Politics • 5 7/8" x 9" • 300 pages Paperback