Global Security Watch--Jordan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313366192)

This insightful study explores how a small state with limited economic resources has played an important role in vital, ongoing Middle Eastern political and security controversies.

Global Security Watch--Jordan provides readers with an expert, comprehensive overview of significant aspects of Jordan's security, including its political, diplomatic, and alliance-building dimensions. Examining how Jordan emerged from a small Arab kingdom with arbitrary borders and no clear national identity to a confident and modernizing state, the book shows how today's nation effectively copes with a variety of geopolitical challenges.

Jordan's close relations with the United States are examined, with special attention paid to ongoing U.S.-Jordanian cooperation in fighting al-Qaeda and its terrorist allies. The work also probes Jordan's involvement in many of the great conflicts in the contemporary Middle East, for example, that between the Israelis and Palestinians, clarifying Jordanian policies, while helping the reader understand many of the regional problems Jordan finds itself forced to address.

Author: W. Andrew Terrill
ISBN-10: 0313366195
ISBN-13: 9780313366192
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2010
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 51