Checkmate

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Checkmate is written by Gennaro Buonocore and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0578712873 (ISBN 10) and 9780578712871 (ISBN 13).

The book is about explaining the current Middle Eastern political and strategic reality as if we were looking at a gigantic chessboard. However, it is important to understand that strategy, in the Middle East, is not everything. This is an area where emotions, passions and cultural heritage have played the protagonists' roles.The book is also about historical implications, memories both physical and emotional, and the unfortunate consequences of cultural displacements. Their effect on social identities might result in prolonged strife and conflict. The author did not attempt to write a sociology treatise nor a policy paper. It is a collection of personal observations and experiences placed in the context of historical events. It focuses on the Middle East, but the concept could be applied to any area of the world.With this book, the author suggests that conflict, in the greater Middle East, cannot be mitigated until Western expectations are modified to include an understanding of the effects that cultural heritage has on regional dynamics. If we wish to understand why we have lost so many lives (and caused the death of many more) with little to no progress towards lasting peace in the Middle East, we need to expand our understanding of cultural heritage to embrace a wider context that today's Western - and especially the American - culture does not easily provide. It is not necessarily the West's fault; it is just a natural consequence of beneficial economic development, and secularization.