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Sectarian Politics In The Gulf: From The Iraq War To The Arab Uprisings

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Author: Frederic Wehrey

Publication Name: Sectarian Politics in the Gulf : from the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Publication Year: 2013

Series: Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics Ser.

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