The Middle East and the United States
Subtitle: history, politics, and ideologies
By: edited by David W. Lesch (Trinity University), Mark L. Haas (Duquesne University)
Edition: Sixth edition.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780813350585
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Foreign relations
Description: The Middle East and the United States brings together scholars and policy experts to provide an empirical and balanced assessment of US policy in the Middle East from the end of WWI to the present. Carefully edited by David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas, this text provides a broad and authoritative understanding of US foreign policy in the Middle East. The sixth edition has been significantly revised throughout to include a new part structure and part introductions that provides students with greater context for understanding the history of US involvement in the Middle East. The five parts cover the watershed moments and major challenges the US faces in the Middle East, from the Cold War proxy wars and the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Gulf wars and the upheaval of the post-Arab uprisings era. Three new chapters-on the Golan negotiations, on US-Saudi relations, and on the US fight against al-Qa'ida and ISIS-make this the most current and comprehensive book on the United States' involvement in the Middle East.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : how American Middle East policy is made / William B. Quandt; title: The US enters the Middle East; title: Americans and the Muslim world : first encounters / Robert J. Allison; title: The ironic legacy of the King-Crane Commission / James Gelvin; title: US foreign policy toward Iran during the Mussadiq era / Mark Gasiorowski; title: National security concerns in US policy toward Egypt, 1949-1956 / Peter Hahn; title: Cold War rivalries; title: The 1957 American-Syrian crisis : globalist policy in a regional reality / David W. Lesch; title: The United States and Nasserist pan-Arabism / Malik Mufti; title: The Soviet perception of the US threat / Georgiy Mirsky; title: The superpowers and the Cold War in the Middle East / Rashid Khalidi; title: Arab-Israeli war and peace; title: The 1967 Arab-Israeli war : US actions and Arab perceptions / Fawaz A. Gerges; title: The Golan negotiations : US-Syrian relations and the failure to achieve a comprehensive peace / Andrew Bowen; title: From Madrid and Oslo to Camp David : the United States and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1991-2001 / Jeremy Pressman; title: George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Robert Freedman; title: Part four. The Persian Gulf in US policy; title: The United States in the Persian Gulf : from twin pillars to dual containment / Gary Sick; title: The Iraq War of 2003 : why did the United states decide to invade? / Steve A. Yetiv; title: What went wrong in Iraq? / Ali R. Abootalebi; title: The United States and Saudi Arabia / Thomas Lippman; title: US-Middle Eastern relations after 9/11; title: Islamist perceptions of US policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Yasbeck-Haddad; title: Ideology and America's nuclear crisis with Iran / Mark L. Haas; title: The U.S.'s post-9/11 fight against Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State : a losing effort; title: In search of a change / Daveed Gartenstein-Ross; title: The push and pull of strategic cooperation : the US relationship with Turkey in the Middle East / Henri J. Barkey; title: The Arab uprisings from the US perspective / Mark L. Haas; title: Epilogue: the early years of the Trump administration's Middle East policy / David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas.