The end of ambition : America's past, present, and future in the Middle East / Steven A. Cook.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cook, Steven A., author.

Series:

• Oxford scholarship online.
• Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• United States--Foreign relations--Middle East.
• Middle East--Foreign relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

Steven A. Cook charts the course of the United States' encounter with the Middle East from the mid-twentieth century through the present day. Looking back, Cook makes a bold claim: the U.S. was - despite setbacks and moral costs - spectacularly successful. That record of achievement began to unravel in the early 1990s when policymakers embarked upon a set of overly ambitious policies to remake the Middle East. Cook highlights that calls to withdraw from the region are rash given the important interests the U.S. maintains in the region. Yet, he also underscores how those interests are changing and explores alternatives to America's current approach to the Middle East against the backdrop of political uncertainty in the United States and a changing global order.

Contents:

• 1. Original Sins
• 2. Prime Directive
• 3. Unbreakable Bonds
• 4. The Great Transformation
• 5. The Aborted Revolution
• 6. Retrenching and Hedging
• 7. Back to the Future.

Notes:

• Also issued in print: 2024.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 19, 2024).

ISBN:

• 0-19-757860-8
• 0-19-757858-6
• 0-19-757859-4

OCLC:

1422578458