Timaş Yayınları Hata Asıl Neredeydi? - Fawaz A. Gerges - World History - Middle Eastern History

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In the late 1940s and early 1950s, as european imperialism withdrew from the middle east, hopes for independence, democratization, and a better future were born in the people of the region. Moreover, leaders who cared about social and economic development, such as iran's prime minister muhammad mossadegh and egypt's president gamal abdel nasser, had also won the public's sympathy. However, this optimistic atmosphere didn't last long, and the region fell into the trap of authoritarianism, competition between superpowers, and proxy wars.

what went wrong when a historic opportunity was seized? The overthrow of musaddiq - who aimed to raise the prosperity of the iranian people by nationalizing iranian oil - and indeed the first democratic government of iran - in 1953 by a cia-backed coup was followed by black propaganda of the us, which aimed to demonize nasser, the most prominent leader of the arab world at that time. "behind these interventions, which the us tried to legitimize with the label of ""anti-communism"", was the desire to integrate the middle east into global capital and financial markets."

Those who approach this strategic geography with a cost-benefit analysis, while calculating their accounts according to material criteria, the price paid by the region has been serious loss of life, wasted human and economic resources, uninterrupted crises and the absence of democratic governance for decades.

Fawaz a., a professor of international relations at the london school of economics.

Gerges explores how the middle east's history might have unfolded differently had the post-world war ii powers, particularly the united states, encouraged independent leaders and their peoples instead of supporting monarchies and autocrats in the region – or even simply refrained from obstructing them. Contrary to bernard lewis, who largely attributes the inability of democratic institutions to thrive in the middle east to the region's social and cultural characteristics, "where was the error actually?" Asks.

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