US foreign policy in the Middle East
Subtitle: from crises to change
By: by Yakub Halabi.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780754675242
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East; Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States
Other titles: United States foreign policy in the Middle East
Description: "US foreign policy in the Middle East has for the most part been shaped by the eruption of major crises that have revealed the deficiency in and bankruptcy of existing consensus and conceptions. Crises generate a new set of ideas to address the roots of the crisis and construct a new reality that would best serve US interests. Further, crises stimulate new ideological and ideational debates that de-legitimate existing practices and prevailing ideas. Yakub Halabi analyzes the way ideas and conceptions have guided US foreign policy in the Middle East, the erection of institutions through which these ideas were brought into practice, and the manner in which these ideas became obsolete and were modified by new ideas. The selection of crises examined is persuasive and provides a critical lens to observe important turning points in American foreign policy."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Ideas matter; title: Consolidation and learning by doing: US foreign policy in the Middle East, 1945-73; title: The oil embargo crisis in 1973-4; title: The Iranian revolution and US foreign policy in the Middle East between 1979 and 2001; title: September 11 and the War on Terror : the rise of neo-conservativism; title: Back to the future : the second Iraq War and the United States democratization policy in the Middle East; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography.