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Unlike other works on the Gulf war, this highly informative book discusses unresolved disputes between Iraq & Kuwait in their historical contexts, focusing on Iraq s economic & strategic requirements as well as its views & grievances before the invasion of Kuwait. Offers a far more accurate & complex portrait of the conflict, providing a wealth of background information not readily available before. It explains the frame of mind of the participants as no one has done before & causes us to examine anew such questions as who was responsible for the conflict, & what might have happened if the U.S. had not intervened so rapidly.
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Majid Khadduri is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus and founder of the Center for Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and the author of The Gulf War, on the Iran-Iraq war.
Edmund Ghareeb is Adjunct Professor of History at George Washington University and a specialist on media affairs.
The swift onset of the Persian Gulf War took many observers (and many television viewers) by surprise. It had, historians Khadduri and Ghareeb note, been a long time coming, however. Kuwait had been artificially severed from Iraq at the end of British colonial rule in 1921, and Iraq had long been seeking access to Kuwaiti ports on the Gulf that, had it been granted, might have forestalled war. Carefully tracing the history of the 1990-91 conflict, the authors suggest that Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait followed a certain logic, but not an inevitable one, and that the Allied powers perhaps should have waited for a peaceful Iraqi withdrawal. Theirs is a controversial reading of history, but one that merits an audience.
About the Author:
Majid Khadduri is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus and founder of the Center for Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and the author of The Gulf War, on the Iran-Iraq war.
Edmund Ghareeb is Adjunct Professor of History at George Washington University and a specialist on media affairs.
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- PublisherOxford Univ. Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0788164244
- ISBN 13 9780788164248
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages299
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