WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THE FAILURE OF THE WESTERN WORLD.

  • The Middle East is a focal point of world politics: the entire region is riddled with crises and conflicts that Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan are unable to resolve.
  • The book reflects the role the Western world has played in the difficulties of these countries. Its military and political interventions have not helped, but have had exactly the opposite effect, inflaming the conflict. This has had huge geopolitical repercussions.

The Middle East has been an area of conflict in world politics for decades. Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan: the countries are as different as their problems, but Ulrich Tilgner points out that the crises there have one thing in common: they emanate into the western world. The key words being migration and terror. Also: the western world carries a large share of the blame for the development and spread of terrorist organisations such as the Islamic State and the permanent civil wars in the region.

The worst thing, however, according to Ulrich Tilgner’s argument, is that the failure of western politics in the Middle East characterises a turning point in global development. The withdrawal of the USA from the region means a further abdication of its role as a world-wide peacekeeping power – and that new problems and tasks are headed towards Europe. There are few journalists as qualified to such make such a well-founded analysis of this part of the world as Ulrich Tilgner, who has known the region for forty years. His blunt analysis is a detailed and eye-opening examination of one of the most dangerous trouble spots in world politics.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Berlin
  • Release: 15.09.2020
  • ISBN: 978-3-7371-0097-7
  • 272 Pages
  • Author: Ulrich Tilgner

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WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THE FAILURE OF THE WESTERN WORLD.
Ulrich Tilgner WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THE FAILURE OF THE WESTERN WORLD.
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Ulrich Tilgner

Ulrich Tilgner has been reporting as a correspondent from the Middle East since 1980, including from Amman and Tehran and as a special correspondent for the channel ZDF and later for Swiss television. In 2003 he was awarded the Joachim Friedrich Prize. He has written several books, including Der inszenierte Krieg. Täuschung und Wahrheit beim Sturz Saddam Husseins,  which became a bestseller.