“…You'll meet such innovators as: -An Iraq veteran whose start-up car company is "staffed" by over 45,000 competing designers and supplied by microfactories around the country -A "micro-lending" community where 570,000 individuals help fund new ventures-from Azerbaijan to the Ukraine -An online community for people with life-altering diseases that's also a large-scale research project Once again backed by original research, Tapscott and Williams provide vivid, new examples of organizations that are successfully embracing the principles of wikinomics…”

“…The number of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with some kind of traumatic brain injury is increasing daily, and has wide ranging effects including physical disfigurement, social stigma, emotional distress, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). …”

“…It includes contributions on Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, and Tunisia. It also features studies on the respective roles of the United States, China, Iran, and Turkey vis-aÌ0-vis questions of political change and stability in the Arab region, and includes a study analyzing the role of Saudi Arabia and its allies in subverting revolutionary movements in other countries…”

“…They have gone from remote villages in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Venezuela, and Nepal to the mountains of Switzerland and metropoles like Hong Kong and Paris, but have also visited the war-torn city of Mosul in Iraq, the border between Mexico and the United States, and the strait of Gibraltar that divides Africa and Europe. …”

“…Addressing the relationships between political power, family ties, religious commitments and literate scholarship in the ancient Middle East of the first millennium BC, Eleanor Robson focuses on two regions where cuneiform script was the predominant writing medium: Assyria in the north of modern-day Syria and Iraq, and Babylonia to the south of modern-day Baghdad. …”

“…In the 1990s, Americans witnessed live televised images of U.S. soldiers dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, wounded American prisoners of war paraded in front of video cameras in Iraq and Kosovo while their families were interviewed simultaneously on live television at home, and scud missile attacks in Israel and Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. …”

“…Gawande's stories take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, to labor and delivery rooms in Boston, to a polio outbreak in India, and to malpractice courtrooms around the country. …”

“…It will also become a primary source for historians and students of the wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan in particular…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jones Debating the Threat; Countering al Qaeda and Its Allies; A Long War; Related Reading; CHAPTER FOUR:The Iraq War: Strategic Overreach by America-and Also al Qaeda Frederic Wehrey; The Narrative Godsend to al Qaeda; The University of Jihad?…”

“…"Since the Iraq war, the Middle East has been in continuous upheaval, resulting in the displacement of millions of people. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…El sinuoso curso de la visión islámica de Gaddafi / Roswitha Badry -- La experiencia islamista sudanesa: de la clandestinidad al poder / Rafael Ortega Rodrigo -- La situación de Oriente Medio y sus repercusiones en la política iraní / María Jesús Merinero -- La reconfesionalización de Oriente Medio: de Líbano1943 a Iraq 2003 / Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán Gómez-Benita -- Quince años de multipartidismo en Argelia: La difícil transición / Ahmed Berber -- De la disociación a la vecinidad: Percepciones marroquíes de las relaciones euromediterráneas / Steefen Wippel -- Democracia, islamicidad y tribalismo / Ulrich Rebstock -- Una mística comunitaria. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Robert O'Neill's Institutional Leadership: The End of the Cold War and the Re-emergence of a Global World Order / John Hillen -- 15. Lessons for Iraq and Afghanistan / Carter Malkasian and Daniel Marston -- 16. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Executive Summary -- A Summary of the Discussions -- Prospects for the Global Energy Market -- An Overview -- A Political Perspective -- An Analytical Perspective -- An Economic Perspective -- National Strategic Energy Interests -- Energy Security and Unresolved Conflict in the Caucasus -- Prospects for Russian Energy -- Evolving Roles of Multilateral Organisations and the Private Sector -- Overview -- The International Energy Forum and Energy Security & Stability -- The View from Brussels -- Regional Challenges: the Middle East -- National Strategic Energy Interests and Creating Regional Stability in the Middle East -- Emerging Threats to Energy Security and Stability -- IRAQ: A Japanese Perspective -- Regional Challenges - North Africa -- Libya -- The North African Challenge -- Regional Challenges - the Caucasus Region - Caspian & Black Sea Basins -- Turkey & Nato -- Prospects for the Caucasus, the Corridor between Two Continents - Keynote Address -- Tatarstan: Euro Islam in the Volga Region -- Critical Energy System Infrastructure (CESI) - Emerging Threats to Shipping and Pipelines -- Shipping: Vital, Vulnerable and Little Understood -- The Straits of Malacca: Critical Sea-Lane Chokepoint -- Background Papers on the World Energy Market -- The Geo-Political Future of the Gulf -- China and Opec -- Egypt — a Promise Yet to be Fulfilled -- Egypt’s Race for Gas Export Markets -- Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Society -- Central Asia and the Caspian Basin -- Initiatives Emanating from the Workshop -- Initiative: Energy Security and Unresolved Conflict in the Caucasus -- Initiative on Pipelines Ports and Shipping Security - Building Public-Private Cooperation -- Energy Security & Nato Strategic Interests After 9/11 -- Press Coverage -- Epolitix -- Epolitix -- Bloomberg News -- The Times…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…IRAN'S MILITARY FORCES AFTER THE IRAN-IRAQ WARTHE BASIJ; OTHER PARAMILITARY GROUPS AND SECURITY PLAYERS; COMPARING THE SECURITY INSTITUTIONS; THE SECURITY INSTITUTIONS AND IRAN'S MILITARY POSTURE; Chapter Five THE MILITARY AND IRANIAN SOCIETY; THE MILITARY AND THE KHATAMI TRANSFORMATION; ARE THE ARMED FORCES LOYAL?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates -- Introduction / A Question of Sources -- New Governors Identified in Arabic Papyri / “I’ll Not Accept Aid from a mushrik” / Territoriality -- The Rural Hinterland of the Visigothic Capitals of Toledo and Reccopolis, between the Years 400–800 CE / Authority and Control in the Interior of Asia Minor, Seventh–Ninth Centuries / Church Building in the Ṭur ʿAbdin in the First Centuries of the Islamic Rule / Les aménagements agricoles dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord (5e–10e siècles) / The Ghāzī Movement / The Coming of Islam to Balkh / Land Use and Resources -- Contrôle et exploitation des campagnes en Sicile / Murtabaʿ al-jund et manzil al-qabāʾil / Landowners, Caliphs and State Policy over Landholdings in the Egyptian Countryside / Monastic Control over Agriculture and Farming / Caliphal Estates and Properties around Medina in the Umayyad Period / Land Tenure, Land Tax and Social Conflictuality in Iraq from the Late Sasanian to the Early Islamic Period (Fifth to Ninth Centuries CE) / Land Reclamation and Irrigation Programs in Early Islamic Southern Mesopotamia / Local Rule and Networks -- Checkpoints, sauf-conduits et contrôle de la population en Égypte au début du VIIIe siècle / Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640–850 CE) / Back Matter -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 2 Literature Review -- 1 Language, War and Power -- 2 Sanitised Language -- 3 Institutional Power -- 4 Political Myth -- 5 Public Opinion, Knowledge and Interest -- 6 British Media and Public Authorities -- 7 Trust, Transparency, Secrecy -- Chapter 3 Methodology -- 1 Research Objectives -- 2 Position of the Researcher -- 3 Armed Forces Covenant - The Experiment Framework -- 4 Research Design and Methods -- 5 Open-Source Data -- 6 Interviews -- 7 Limitations and Trustworthiness -- Chapter 4 Findings -- 1 Libya Introduction -- 2 Overarching Narrative -- 3 Regime Change -- 4 Civilian Casualties -- 5 Post-campaign -- 6 Iraq and Syria - Counter Daesh Coalition -- 7 Overarching Narrative -- 8 Killing to Success? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Missions chrétiennes et productions des savoirs au Moyen-Orient, XIXe-XXIe siècle / Modern Aramaic and the Catholicization of Christian culture in northern Iraq : language policy and missionary approach (19th-20th centuries) / Le grand euchologe melkite de Jérusalem (1865) : circonstances d'impression et spécificités liturgiques / Writing the history of the East from Francis of Assis's perspective : origins, method and contents of Girolamo Golubovich's Biblioteca bio-bibliografica della Terra Santa / L'imprimerie des dominicains de Mossoul : une contribution à la mémoire culturelle des chrétiens d'Orient / Les caractères de Jérusalem : l'Imprimerie fanciscaine et la revue La Terre Sainte (1921-1940) / Syriac studies for the Kaiser : Eduard Sachau's scientific mission to Mesopotamia / Marcus Simaika Pacha ou l'illustration de l'éducation des frères des écoles chrétiennes sur un copte-orthodoxe / Showing the cultures of the East : Piet Gerrits and the Biblical Museum of the Holy Land Foundation / Les bénédictins de Tantur (1964-1983) / Dominican-lraqi scholarship and the Syro-Chaldean Seminary : creating and maintaining a shared space of scholarly activity (1878-1950) / Bibles for ordinary people : the British and Foreign Bible Society and Middle Eastern vernacular publishing / L'expérience missionnaire au Moyen-Orient et les savoirs sur l'Orient chrétien (XIXe-XXIe siècles)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction Religion That Matters: Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala -- Part 1 The Visuality and Aurality of Shiʿi Materiality -- Chapter 1 The Literal and the Hidden Some Bektashi Religious Materialities -- Chapter 2 Mediated Devotion Sound and Media in Transnational Azeri-Turkish Twelver Shiʿism -- Chapter 3 Sonic Messages Hizbullah's Mawlid an-Nabi Celebrations in Lebanon -- Chapter 4 Materializing Cultural Memory From Wartime Eulogies to Panegyric Pop in Contemporary Iran -- Part 2 Gendered Perspectives on Shiʿi Materiality -- Chapter 5 Affective Consanguinity Blood, Mothers and Martyrs on the Battlefields of the Iran-Iraq War -- Chapter 6 Zur-khane A Material Approach to the Embodiment of Twelver Shiʿi Male Virtue Ethics -- Chapter 7 Khidma: In the Service of Ahl al-Bayt Gender, Agency and Social Capital in Shiʿi Religious Statue Art in Kuwait -- Chapter 8 A Price for a Wife or a Token of Love? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Jacobs -- Crowds and collective affect in Romanos's biblical retellings / Georgia Frank -- Christian legend in medieval Iraq : siblings, sacrifice, and sanctity in Behnam and Sarah / Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent -- Five women martyrs : from Persia to Crete / Sebastian Brock -- Gregory of Nazianzus's poetic ascetic aesthetic / Suzanne Abrams Rebillard -- Eclipsed in exile : in defense of Athanasius and the Ethiopians / Bernadette McNary-Zak -- Sacred bonds : religion, relationships, and the art of pedagogy / Constance M. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Driving fast through fog (1990-1991) -- Into the Balkans (1992-1994) -- 'Where angels fear to tread' (1995-1998) -- Kosovo (1999) -- Into a new century (1999-2001) -- 9/11 and its aftermath (2001) -- The schisms of Iraq (2002-2005) -- Afghanistan: NATO's longest war (2006-2010) -- Part 6: Renewed confrontation. …”