Praha: Karohnum, 2001. 216 s. * (c) 2002 Eduard Gombar, a well-known Czech expert on the problems of modern and contemporary history of the countries of the Near and Middle East, an employee of the Institute of the Middle East and Africa at the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague, is the author of one of the most fundamental works for Czech Oriental studies in recent years - "New History of Muslim Countries". He also works extensively and successfully in the field of studying the internal development of the countries of the Near and Middle East regions, their foreign policy, as well as the role that they play in the modern world, primarily in regional geopolitics. The author pays no less attention to the issues of economic development and cooperation of the countries of this region among themselves, on the one hand, with the Czech Republic and other Eastern European states, on the other. The reviewed work is devoted to three states of the Muslim world-Syria, Libya and Iran. For E. Gombar's Western European colleagues, these countries are associated with many myths that often determine outdated approaches to their research. The author focuses mainly on the internal changes taking place in these countries and coinciding with a profound transformation of the entire system of international relations. The analysis proposed by E. Gombar starts from a really productive idea, the essence of which is that any attempt to study the intra-Syrian, intra-Libyan or intra-Iranian situation cannot be effective without taking into account the totality of factors of international life. For Czech Oriental studies and national political science, the problem of "centers of economic and political power" developed by E. Gombar in each region is of fundamental importance. Gombar E. * Dramatic crescent. Syria, Libya and Iran are in the process of change. Prague: Karolinum Publ., 2001, 216 p. page 210 of the three States he analyzed. This applies primarily to the first chapt ... Read more