TY - BOOK AU - Milton Edwards,Beverley AU - Hinchcliffe,Peter TI - Conflicts in the Middle East since 1945 T2 - Making of the contemporary world SN - 9780415440172 AV - DS63.1 .M566 2008 U1 - 956.04 23 PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Mediation, International KW - Middle East KW - Politics and government KW - 1945- N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [150]-153) and index; The Arab-Israeli conflict : ways of war -- The Palestinian-Israeli conflict: hostages to history -- Superpower conflict in the Middle East: war by proxy -- Generation jihad: conflict in the name of Islam? -- Sectarian conflict: Lebanon, state without a nation -- Ethnic conflict: the forgotten Kurds -- War in the Gulf: Iran and Iraq 1980-1989 -- The Kuwait crisis: brother versus brother -- The politics of conflict and failure of peacemaking -- No end to the storm: 9/11 and the war in Iraq ER -