Imperfect strangers
Subtitle: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East relations in the 1970s
By: Salim Yaqub
Series: The United States in the world; United States in the world
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
ISBN-13: 9780801448836
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict; Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-444) and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of stalemate : the Nixon administration and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1972; title: A stirring at the margins : Arab-American political activism, 1967-1973; title: From Munich to Boulder : domestic anti-terrorism and Arab-American communities, 1972-1973; title: Rumors of war, and war : February-October 1973; title: Scuttle diplomacy : Henry Kissinger and the Middle East peace process, 1973-1976; title: Future shock : the speculative mode in American discourse on the Arab world, 1974-1978; title: Fallen cedar : the Lebanese civil war and the United States, 1975-1979; title: Camp David retreat : Jimmy Carter and Arab-Israeli diplomacy, 1977-1979; title: Abdul Enterprises : Arab petrodollars in the United States, 1974-1981; title: The center cannot hold : Americans, Arabs, and the wider Middle East, 1979-1980.