Identity crises as a paradigm of Middle Eastern conflictuality

In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Band no.127, Heft Feb 91

Abstract

The 3 traditional models of Middle Eastern conflict are analysed and rejected. Presents an historical study of the evolution of the Near East from the times of Ottoman domination. Argues that the technical and military superiority of Europe was the instrument of a revolution in thinking which destabilised the Middle Eastern feeling of identity and has been eating away at its roots for over a century. (SJK)