Perilous power
Subtitle: the Middle East & U.S. foreign policy : dialogues on terror, democracy, war, and justice
By: Noam Chomsky & Gilbert Achcar ; edited with a preface by Stephen R. Shalom.
Contributors: Achcar, Gilbert.; Shalom, Stephen Rosskamm, 1948-.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States; Iraq War, 2003- -- Protest movements -- United States; Insurgency -- Iraq; Democracy -- Middle East; Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East
Other titles: Middle East and U.S. foreign policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Terrorism and conspiracies. Defining terrorism ; The terrorist threat ; Responding to terrorism ; 9/11 conspiracies ; Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait; title: Fundamentalism and democracy. Fundamentalism ; The Saudi Kingdom ; Democracy in the Middle East ; Fundamentalism and democracy ; Democracy since the Iraq invasion; title: Sources of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Oil ; Israel, the Israel lobby, and U.S. policy ; Israel and U.S. interests; title: Wars in the "greater Middle East". Afghanistan ; Responding to 9/11 ; Afghanistan today ; The United States and Iraq, 2003 ; Other major powers and Iraq ; The current situation in Iraq ; The Iraqi insurgency ; U.S. policy in Iraq today ; What should the antiwar movement be calling for? ; Will withdrawal lead to civil war? ; The Kurds in Iraq ; The Kurds in Turkey; title: Secession, self-determination, and justice ; Syria ; Iran; title: The Israel-Palestine conflict. The legitimacy of Israel ; Palestinian say in any settlement ; Going from a settlement to lasting peace ; Palestinians within Israel ; Mizrahim ; The Palestinian refugees ; Efforts to achieve peace ; The Palestinian view of a settlement ; Zionism and the Palestinians ; Israeli politics ; Palestinian politics ; How can we support justice in Israel/Palestine? ; Boycotts, divestment, and other tactics ; Anti-semitism ; Anti-semitism in Western Europe ; Anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia; title: Epilogue. The situation in Iraq ; Hamas in power ; The Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon conflict ; The Israel lobby ; The United States and Iran ; Hezbollah ; Confrontation with Hamas and Hezbollah.