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A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- The Saudi Struggle for Iraq
Engelsk Hardback
A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
- The Saudi Struggle for Iraq
Engelsk Hardback

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In recent years, the geopolitical rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran has dominated the headlines. Many have charted the polarisation between a Saudi-led Sunni camp and an Iranian-led Shia one, assuming that a predominantly Shia state like Iraq would automatically ally with Iran. In this compelling account, Katherine Harvey tells a different story: Iraq''s alignment with Iran was not a foregone conclusion. Rather, Saudi efforts to undermine Iran have paradoxically empowered it.Harvey investigates why the Saudis refused to engage with Iraq''s post-2003 Shia-led government, despite continual outreach by Iraq''s new leaders and considerable pressure from the United States. She finds that certain deeply ingrained assumptions predisposed Saudi leaders to see a Shia-led Iraq as naturally beholden to Iran: the view that Iran is inherently expansionist, and the belief that Arab Shia tend to be loyal to it. This outlook was simplistic, even downright inaccurate; and, in refusing to engage, the Saudis created a self-fulfilling prophecy.As Harvey demonstrates, members of Iraq''s new government initially sought to establish a positive relationship with Saudi Arabia, and to pursue a course independent from Iran. But, isolated and rejected by Saudi King Abdullah, Iraq ultimately had nowhere else to turn.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
392
ISBN-13:
9781787385665
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1787385663
Udg. Dato:
7 okt 2021
Længde:
38mm
Bredde:
222mm
Højde:
149mm
Forlag:
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato:
7 okt 2021
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