文档介绍：A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
DICTIONARY OF THE MIDDLE
EAST
A POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC
DICTIONARY OF THE MIDDLE
EAST
David Seddon
FIRST EDITION
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FOREWORD
The boundaries selected for this first Political and Economic Dictionary of the Middle
East may appear somewhat arbitrary. It is difficult to define precisely ‘the Middle East’:
this foreword attempts to explain the reasoning behind my selection. For the purposes of
this Dictionary, the region includes six countries and one disputed territory in North
Africa (Mauritania, o, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Western Sahara), eight
countries in Western Asia (Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq and
Iran), seven in Arabia (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar,
Bahrain and Yemen), five newly independent states in southern Central Asia
(Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkme