Imagining the Middle East
Subtitle: the building of an American foreign policy, 1918-1967
By: Matthew F. Jacobs
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780807834886
Subjects: Politics and government; Islam and politics; Arab-Israeli conflict; Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The task; title: falls to the area specialists : national interests, knowledge production, and the emergence of an informal network; title: The all-pervading influence of the Muslim faith : the perils and promise of political Islam; title: A new amalgam of interests, religion, propaganda, and mobs : interpretations of secular mass politics; title: What modernization requires of the Arabs; title: is their de-Arabization : imagining a transformed Middle East; title: A profound and growing disturbance; title: which may last for decades : the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the limits of the network.