Michael Lüders (Book order)

Michael Lüders Book order

January 1, 1959

Michael Lüders is a German political scientist and Islamic studies scholar, active as a publicist and political and economic consultant. His work delves into a deeper understanding of complex geopolitical relationships and cultural dynamics within the Islamic world. He shares his insights with readers through engaging publications that illuminate key challenges and opportunities in a global context.

Blowback

151 pages
6 hours of reading

With clarity and wit, Michael Luders tells the story of Western interference in the Middle East since the colonial era, and explains how it has given birth to the current political situation. Stories change according to where they begin. And we tend to forget what doesn't suit our sense of ourselves. Iran's fraught relationship with the West can only be understood through the lens of the CIA- and MI6- sponsored overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1953. Without the 2003 Iraq war and the West's policy towards Assad in Syria, there would be no 'Islamic State'. Anyone who wants to understand the complex pattern of interconnecting threads in the region needs to read this - a Black Book of Western policy in the Middle East.