The Failure of Westphalia: A Constructivist Examination of Western and Middle Eastern Relations

By Jayson Michael Warren

In full disclosure, this work is not intended to be a dogmatic or pedantic endorsement of any one religion, ethic, or culture. To the contrary, it is the author's intent to examine a number of competing ideas, philosophies, and belief systems in order to extrapolate their geopolitical implications and to pursue them to their logical (albeit sometimes inevitable) conclusions. Too often, any number of presuppositions at work within a given situation go overlooked and subsequently skew geopolitical analysis and resulting policy decisions. This treatise seeks to transcend mere opinion or speculation and achieve instead a framework for pragmatic comprehension and understanding. In short, it seeks to defend the notion that ideas matter in geopolitics and that sound analysis must account for the ideas esteemed by both the entities being observed (e.g. states, peoples, etc.) and the analyst(s) themselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541289722
• ISBN13: 9781541289727
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"