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The Middle East and the United States : a historical and political reassessment
edited by David W. Lesch.
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview, ©2007.
- 4th ed.
- xv, 567 pages : map ; 23 cm.
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- Contents
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- 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 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
- 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 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. Part Two. Arab-Israeli war and peace
- 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
- From Madrid and Oslo to Camp David: The United States and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1991-2001 / Jeremy Pressman
- The Bush Administration and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: the first term and beyond / Robert O. Freedman. Part three. Gulf wars
- The United States in the Persian Gulf: from twin pillars to dual containment / Gary Sick
- Closing the distance: Kuwait and the United States in the Gulf toward the Gulf / Shafeeq N. Ghabra
- U.S. input into Iraqi decision-making, 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 Iraq War of 2003: why did the United States decide to invade? / Steve A. Yetiv
- What went wrong in Iraq? / Ali R. Abootalebi. Part Four. Retrospective and reassessment
- The Soviet perception of the U.S. threat / Georgiy Mirsky
- 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 G. Weinbaum
- Is it time for the United States to give up on Arab liberals / Jon B. Alterman
- New U.S. policies for a new Middle East / William B. Quandt
- Islamist perceptions of U.S. policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
- Postscript: Americans and the Muslim world first encounters / Robert J. Allison
- About the editor and contributors
- Index.
- Other information
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
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- 0813343496 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780813343495 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Identifying numbers
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- LCCN: 2006022860
- OCLC: 70630407
- OCLC: 70630407