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Us versus them : the United States, radical Islam, and the rise of the green threat / Douglas Little.
Van Pelt Library DS63.2.U5 L59 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Little, Douglas, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cold War.
- Islamophobia--United States.
- Islamophobia.
- United States--Relations--Middle East.
- United States.
- Relations.
- Middle East.
- Middle East--Relations--United States.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 314 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Analyzes the reasons that the United States shifted its attention after 1989 from the containment of communism to a policy of combatting radical Islam, exploring the political and economic tensions that created a foreign policy fueled by Islamophobia. --Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Us versus them : America and Islam in the age of terror
- Genesis : containment and Cold War in the Muslim world
- George H.W. Bush and the end of the Cold War : "beyond containment" in the Middle East
- Bill Clinton and the Middle East : from "enlargement" to "dual containment"
- Containment on steroids? : George W. Bush and rogue state rollback
- The Obama doctrine : "contagement" and counterterrorism in the Muslim world
- Revelations : Islamophobia, the green threat, and a new cold war in the Middle East?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469626802
- 1469626802
- OCLC:
- 918986585
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