BOOK REVIEW: M.E. McMillan, ‟From the First World War to the Arab Spring: What’s Really Going on in the Middle East?”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Abstract

The most recent book authored by M. E. McMillan, From the First World War to the Arab Spring: What's Really Going On in the Middle East?, endeavours to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Middle East by approaching difficult and controverted chapters in the history of the area, such as the circumstances following the First World War treaties to the conflicts of the Arab Spring. In the Introduction, Lost in the Labyrinth: What’s Really Going On in the Middle East?, the author closely scrutinizes the recent course of events in the region, with all its contradictions and inconsistencies, offering a guide into the labyrinth of the post–Arab Spring Middle East.