Battle Ground: Ten Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East
Ten conflicts, from Syria to Yemen, explained for readers who gave up following them years ago.
Christopher Phillips takes the wars and rivalries that have reshaped the Middle East since 2011 and explains each in turn: who is fighting, what they want, and which outside powers are funding them. It is pitched at the general reader rather than the specialist, and it is honest about the cases where the answers remain genuinely contested.
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Tyler Cowen
Christopher Phillips, Battle Ground: Ten Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East. A good, “simple enough” introduction to the wars going on in Syria, Yemen, and other parts of the Middle East.
Source · March 2024
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