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The Middle East and the United States : history, politics, and ideologies / edited by David W. Lesch, Mark L. Haas.
Van Pelt Library DS63.2.U5 M43 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Middle East.
- Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 562 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth edition ; updated 2013 edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, CO : Westview Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- The 2013 updated fifth edition of the acclaimed The Middle East and the United States brings together scholars and diplomats from the Middle East, Europe, and North America to provide an objective, cross-cultural assessment of US policy toward the Middle East. Regional experts David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas include a new chapter dedicated to the events of the Arab Spring and its aftermath, looking with a special eye to the impact on US interactions with the region. The text also features five new chapters discussing the superpowers and the Middle East throughout the Cold War; the Bush and Obama administrations and the Arab-Israeli conflict; contemporary US-Syrian relations; the importance of ideology to US-Iranian relations under the last three administrations; and US relations with al-Qa'ida. Carefully edited and reorganized to place a greater emphasis on current events, The Middle East and the United States provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of US foreign policy and Middle East political history from the First World War through the Arab Spring and beyond. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. From idealism to realism : Wilsonian intent to Cold War practice. The ironic legacy of the King-Crane Commission / James Gelvin
- The "ambassador for the Arabs" : the Locke mission and the unmaking of US development diplomacy in the Near East, 1952-1953 / Paul W.T. Kingston
- US foreign policy toward Iran during the Massadiq era / Mark Gasiorowski
- The Mussadiq era in Iran, 1951-1953 : a contemporary diplomat's view / Sam Falle
- National security concerns in US policy toward Egypt, 1949-1956 / Peter Hahn
- The perils of ambiguity : the United States and the Baghdad Pact / Elie Podeh
- The 1957 American-Syrian crisis : globalist policy in a regional reality / David W. Lesch
- The United States and Nasserist pan-Arabism / Malik Mufti
- The Soviet perception of the US threat / Georgiy Mirsky
- The superpowers and the Cold War in the Middle East / Rashid Khalidi
- pt. 2. Arab-Israeli war and peace. The 1967 Arab-Israeli War : US 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 and Shannon Powers
- From Madrid and Oslo to Camp David : the United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1991-2001 / Jeremy Pressman
- George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict / Robert O. Freedman
- pt. 3. Allies and enemies in the Gulf and beyond. Americans and the Muslim world : first encounters / Robert J. Allison
- The United States in the Persian Gulf : from twin pillars to dual containment / Gary Sick
- From "over the horizon" to "into the backyard" : The US-Saudi relationship in the Gulf / F. Gregory Gause, III
- The Iraq War of 2003 : why did the United States decide to invade? / Steve A. Yetiv
- What went wrong in Iraq? / Ali R. Abootalebi
- The push an pull of strategic cooperation : the US relationship with Turkey in the Middle East / Henri J. Barkey
- The United States and Afghanistan : from marginality to strategic concern / Marvin G. Weinbaum
- Ideology and Iran's American policies, 1997-2008 / Mark L. Haas
- Is it time for the United States to give up on Arab liberals? / Jon B. Alterman
- Islamist perceptions of US policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
- US relations with al-Qa'ida / Heather S. Gregg
- New US policies for a new Middle East? / William B. Quandt
- The United States and the Arab Spring : threats and opportunities in a revolutionary era / Mark L. Haas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813349145
- 0813349141
- OCLC:
- 834432867
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