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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Trajectories of Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean -- PART I -- 1. The Life of Boubeker El-Ghanjaoui: From a Cameleer to a Wealthy Notable in Precolonial Morocco, 1870–1905 -- 2. Aref Taher Bey: An Ottoman Military Instructor Bridging the Maghreb and the Ottoman Mediterranean -- 3. Nazli Hanem, Kmar Bayya, and Khiriya Bin Ayyad: Three Women Living between Istanbul, Cairo, and Tunis in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 4. Servant, Officer, and Resistance Fighter: The Autobiography of Qaʾid al-Raha al-Najim al-Akhsassi (1867/68–1964) -- 5. Little Known Roots of Islamism: al-Kawakibi's Umm al-Qura -- PART II -- 6. Revisiting Networks and Narratives: Enver Pasha's Pan-Islamic and Pan-Turkic Quest -- 7. Going to School: Women's Life Stories, Networks, and Education in Colonial North Africa, c. 1850–1962 -- 8. Mukhtar Al-Ayari, a Radical Tunisian in the 1920s and His Place in Labor History -- Index

Preface -- Figures -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Strategic context -- Intensifying mutual perceptions of threat -- Senkaku Islands dispute -- 3. Chinese-Japanese maritime vessel interactions -- 4. Chinese-Japanese military aircraft interactions -- Japan's response to Chinese air activity -- Related measures taken by Japan that support the aerial domain -- Issues and concerns -- 5. Conclusion -- References.

"During June 2015, the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI), in conjunction with Headquarters, United States Air Force, held its inaugural conference titled 'Assessing Chinese Aerospace Training and Operational Competence.' This volume contains revised versions of three of the papers presented. 'PRC Leadership Dynamics Shaping the Future of the PLA Air Force: Examining the Party's Military Reform Efforts' examines the effect that leadership priorities and the composition of the Central Military Commission might have on People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) influence, bureaucratic leverage, and force development goals. 'Trends in PLA Air Force Joint Training: Assessing Progress in Integrated Joint Operations' examines the factors and concepts driving PLAAF joint training and evaluates the PLAAF's progress toward achieving this critical component of its long-term modernization objectives. Finally, 'New Type Support: Developments in PLAAF Air Station Logistics and Maintenance' details extensive PLAAF efforts to reform its logistics and maintenance systems"--

Introduction -- Grand Strategies for China -- Framing the Future: Political Control and Social Stability -- Rebalancing Diplomacy and Economics, Restructuring Science and Technology -- Restructuring National Defense -- Future Scenarios, Competitive Trajectories, and Implications.

"Studies of the pivotal historic place of the Mediterranean have long been dominated by specialists of its northern shores, that is, by European historians. In this groundbreaking volume, seven leading authors challenge views of Mediterranean space as shaped by European trajectories and so problematize our comfortable notions. Drawing perspectives from the south--from its Arab and African shores--the book asks anew: What is the Mediterranean? What are its borders and defining characteristics? What forces of nature, politics, culture, or economics have made the Mediterranean, and how long have they endured? How long will they? Covering the sixteenth to twentieth centuries, this timely volume brings the early modern world into conversation with the modern world in new ways, making clear that only recently have the northern and southern been differentiated into separate cultural and political zones. The Making of the Modern Mediterranean offers a blueprint for a new generation of readers to rethink the world we thought we knew"--Provided by publisher

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