The Middle East and the United States : a historical and political reassessment / edited by David W. Lesch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lesch, David W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.

Middle East.

International relations.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.

Physical Description:

xv, 518 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2003.

Contents:

The ironic legacy of the King-Crane commission / James Gelvin

The "ambassador for the Arabs" : the Locke mission and the unmaking of U.S. development diplomacy in the Near East, 1952-1953 / Paul W.T. Kingston

U.S. foreign policy toward Iran during the Mussadiq era / Mark Gasiorowski

Iranian perceptions of the United States and the Mussadiq period / Sussan Siavoshi

The Mussadiq era in Iran, 1951-1953 : a contemporary diplomat's view / Sir Sam Falle

National security concerns in U.S. policy toward Egypt, 1949-1956 / Peter Hahn

The perils of ambiguity : the United States and the Baghdad pact / Elie Podeh

The Jeykll-and-Hyde origins of the U.S.-Jordanian strategic relationship / Robert B. Satloff

The 1957 American-Syrian crisis : globalist policy in a regional reality / David W. Lesch

U.S. policy and military intervention in the 1958 Lebanon crisis / Erika Alin

The United States and Nasserist Pan-Arabism / Malik Mufti

The 1967 Arab-Israeli War : U.S. actions and Arab perceptions / Fawaz A. Gerges

Flawed strategies and missed signals : crisis bargaining between the superpowers, October 1973 / Janice Gross Stein

The United States and Israel : the nature of a special relationship / Bernard Reich

The U.S.-PLO relationship : from dialogue to the White House lawn / Joann A. Digeorgio-Lutz

The specifics of the meaning of peace in the Middle East / Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

The United States in the Persian Gulf : from twin pillars to dual containment / Gary Sick

Kuwait and the United States : the reluctant ally and U.S. policy toward the Gulf / Shafeeq Ghabra

U.S. input into Iraqi decisionmaking, 1988-1990 / Amatzia Baram

From "over the horizon" to "into the backyard" : the U.S.-Saudi relationship and the Gulf war / F. Gregory Gause III

The Soviet Union, the Gulf war, and its aftermath : a case study in limited superpower cooperation / Robert O. Freedman

The Soviet perception of the U.S. threat / Georgiy Mirsky

The U.S.-GCC relationship : is it a glass leaking or a glass filling? / John Duke Anthony

The push and pull of strategic cooperation : the U.S. relationship with Turkey in the Middle East / Henri J. Barkey

The United States and Afghanistan : from marginality to global concern / Marvin Weinbaum

New U.S. policies for a new Middle East? / William Quandt

Islamist perceptions of U.S. policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad

Americans and the Muslim World-First encounters / Robert J. Allison.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813340497

0813339405

OCLC:

51519564