The Revelations of 1967: New Research on the Six Day War and Its Lessons for the Contemporary Middle East

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Michael Oren
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Six Day War ◽  
New Research

scholarly journals WAS THERE A 17TH CENTURY CRISIS IN SPANISH AMERICA?

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert S. Klein ◽  
Sergio T. Serrano Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
New Research

AbstractTraditional historical literature has stressed a generalised crisis throughout the world in the 17th century. First proposed for Europe with its numerous dynastic, religious and state conflicts, it has now been expanded to include Asia and the Middle East as well. It was also assumed that there was a significant crisis in the Americas, a theme which until recently has dominated the traditional literature. The claim that there was such a crisis was based on a series of classic studies by Earl J. Hamilton, Chaunu and Borah, among others. But new research has challenged this hypothesis and we will examine both these new studies as well as offering our own research findings on this subject.

The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-174
Author(s):  
Michael Rubner
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Six Day War

Six-Day War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Rezk
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Six Day War ◽  
Military Support ◽  
The Uk

The Six-Day War currently stands as one of the CIA’s greatest ‘success’ stories in the Middle East. Good intelligence is credited with guiding policy makers in the UK and US to resist Israeli requests for military support and thereby containing a conflict that could have pitted a Western supported Israel against a Soviet backed Arab force. What made intelligence so effective in this instance? This chapter argues that analysts recognised the intentions and capabilities of the major players in this conflict. They knew that Nasser had no appetite for a war with Israel and acknowledged that he had been goaded by Syria into an aggressive rhetoric that became dangerously self-fulfilling. More importantly, analysts correctly identified that despite the numerical superiority of the combined Arab forces, the Israeli military would prevail. Yet looking beyond the catharsis of military conflict raises important questions about the utility of discourse such as ‘success’ in describing a war whose tragic legacy remains with us today.

South Asia, the Middle East, and Muslim Transnationalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 186-192
Author(s):  
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
New Research

The conclusion revisits the extent to which Pakistani Shi‘is have been increasingly drawn into the circuits of the Shi‘i international in the course of the 20th and 21st centuries. It argues that both Sunni and Shi‘i scholars have not been satisfied with merely being relegated to peripheral positions. Rather, Pakistani Muslim thinkers have been actively carving out spaces of influence for themselves. They continue to insist on the historical intellectual contributions of the Indian subcontinent and at times even claim hermeneutical hegemony for the region. The conclusion also takes a comparative look at India, where Shi‘i intellectual life was significantly less disrupted than in Pakistan. The conclusion calls for a new research paradigm that would take seriously the importance of bidirectional flows of thought between South Asia and the Middle East. Such a novel perspective has the potential to fundamentally reshape existing understandings of present-day phenomena such as Islamism.

The Security Council in the May 1967 Crisis: A Study in Frustration

1969 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Lapidoth
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Peace And Security ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Six Day War

Members of the United Nations have conferred upon the Security Council “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security” and have agreed “that in carrying out its duties under this responsibility the Security Council acts on their behalf” (article 24 of the U.N. Charter). The question may be asked whether the Security Council lived up to this responsibility during the May 1967 crisis in the Middle East which preceded the Six Day War. Did the Security Council do everything in its power to avoid the clash, and what were the reasons for its failure to avert the crisis?In order to be able to evaluate the Council's stand, it will be necessary to recall summarily the developments which led up to the hostilities of June 1967, as well as the Security Council's powers under the Charter of the U.N.

Mainstreaming Middle East Gender Research: Promise or Pitfall?

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Ruth Roded
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Major Subject ◽  
The Status ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Research

From The Advent Of Middle Eastern Studies, the ‘status of the Muslim woman’ was a major subject of interest, not to say fascination. Women in Middle Eastern society were depicted as invisible, downtrodden figures, whiling away their time in harems, ignorant of anything but the most frivolous matters, and prone to childlike behavior. A handful of outstanding, unique women were portrayed either as ideal paragons or as evil shrews.In the wake of the feminist movement of the 1960s, Middle Eastern ‘women’s history’ gradually began to modify these stereotypes. During the last two decades, new research has revealed the varied roles women have played in the economic, social, and cultural life of the Middle East. Quantitative studies of economic records have produced provocative findings on the ownership and management of property by women.

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