The Age of Jihad
Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
Published on 11. October 2016
480 pages
978-1-78478-448-5 (ISBN)
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Cockburn was the first Western journalist to warn of the dangers posed by Islamic State. His originality and breadth of vision make The Age of Jihad the most in-depth analysis of the regional crisis in the Middle East to date.
2001 heralded a new age of disintegration in the Middle East. This has had a murderous impact on the people who live there but also the world beyond. Beginning with the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, Cockburn explores the vast geopolitical struggle that is the Sunni-Shia conflict, a clash that shapes the war on terror, western military interventions, the evolution of the insurgency, the civil wars in Yemen, Libya and Syria, the Arab Spring, the fall of regional dictators, and the rise of Islamic State.
2001 heralded a new age of disintegration in the Middle East. This has had a murderous impact on the people who live there but also the world beyond. Beginning with the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, Cockburn explores the vast geopolitical struggle that is the Sunni-Shia conflict, a clash that shapes the war on terror, western military interventions, the evolution of the insurgency, the civil wars in Yemen, Libya and Syria, the Arab Spring, the fall of regional dictators, and the rise of Islamic State.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-78478-448-5 (9781784784485)
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Patrick Cockburn is a Middle East correspondent for the Independent and has previously worked for the Financial Times. He has written three books on Iraq's recent history, including the National Book Circle Awards-shortlisted The Occupation. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006 and the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009. More recently he has been awarded Foreign Commentator of the Year at the 2013 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year at the 2014 British Journalism Awards and Foreign Reporter of the Year at the 2014 Press Awards.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Afghan Prelude
- One: The Overthrow of the Taliban: Afghanistan, 2001
- Part II: The Occupation of Iraq
- Two: Iraq Under Sanctions: Iraq, 1990-2003
- Three: Regime Change: Iraq, 2003
- Four: Resistance: Iraq, 2004
- Five: Bombs and Ballots: Iraq, 2005
- Six: Civil War: Iraq, 2006-07
- Seven: Drawdown: Iraq, 2007-10
- Part III: Afghan Reprise
- Eight: The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan, 2009-12
- Part IV: The Arab Spring
- Nine: Mission Creep: Libya, 2011
- Ten: The 'Somalianisation' of Libya: Libya, 2012-14
- Eleven: Yemen in the Crossfire: Yemen, 2009-15
- Twelve: Sectarian Venom: Bahrain, 2011
- Part V: Syria: Revolution and Counter-Revolution
- Thirteen: From Revolution to Sectarian War: Syria, 2011-13
- Fourteen: Syrian Catastrophe: Syria, 2013-14
- Part VI: Birth of a Caliphate
- Fifteen: Ten Years On: Iraq, 2013
- Sixteen: Iraq on the Brink: Iraq, 2013-14
- Seventeen: The Islamic State Expands: The Caliphate, 2014
- Eighteen: The Islamic State Remains: The Caliphate, 2014-15
- Nineteen: Life in the Caliphate: The Caliphate, 2015
- Twenty: The Islamic State at Bay: The Caliphate, 2015-16
- Afterword: Eight Wars
- Acknowledgements
- Index
