The Middle East and the United States : a historical and political reassessment

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The Middle East and the United States : a historical and political reassessment

edited by David W. Lesch

Westview Press, 1996

  • pbk.

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The important relationship between the United States and the Middle East has historically been examined from a one-dimensional perspective. This volume brings together noted scholars and diplomats from the Middle East, North America, and Europe to provide a comprehensive multidimensional and cross-cultural reassessment of American policy toward the region in the twentieth century, from the King-Crane Commission following World War I through the current Israeli-PLO peace accords. }The important relationship between the United States and the Middle East has historically been examined from a one-dimensional perspective. This volume brings together noted scholars and diplomats from the Middle East, North America, and Europe to provide a comprehensive multidimensional and cross-cultural reassessment of American policy toward the region in the twentieth century, from the King-Crane Commission following World War I through the current Israeli-PLO peace accords. The book begins by examining the evolution of the U.S. role in the Middle East, from untested international actor to Cold War participant in the 1950s. The discussions explore how the perceived idealism of the Wilsonian approach gave way to economic diplomacy following World War II, which in turn was replaced by a more goal-oriented foreign policy commensurate with the onset of the Cold War. The second section analyzes the varied roles of the United States in the peace process in the aftermath of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and discusses each role in relation to specific events and relationships that characterized the process.Contributors then turn to the 1990-1991 Gulf War, which helped bring about a new regional configuration and created an enhanced role for the United States. The final section offers a retrospective look at the Cold War era in the Middle East and at the new challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for American foreign policy. Among these are the transformation of the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia, the effects of socioeconomic distress on many Arab states, and the corresponding rise of Islamist movements, which many view as inimical to U.S. foreign policy objectives. }

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • (David W.
  • Lesch.)
  • From Idealism To Realism: Wilsonian Intent To Cold War Practice
  • The Ironic Legacy of the King-Crane Commission
  • (James Gelvin.)
  • The Ambassador for the Arabs: The Locke Mission and the Unmaking of U.S. Development Diplomacy in the Near East, 19521953
  • (Paul W.T. Kingston.)
  • U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Iran During the Mussadiq Era
  • (Mark Gasiorowski.)
  • Iranian Perceptions of the United States and the Mussadiq Period
  • (Sussan Siavoshi.)
  • The Mussadiq Era in Iran, 19511953: A Contemporary Diplomats View
  • (Sir Sam Falle.)
  • The Cold War In The Middle East
  • National Security Concerns in U.S. Policy Toward Egypt, 19491956
  • (Peter Hahn.)
  • The United States and King Hussein
  • (Richard B. Parker.)
  • The Jekyll-and-Hyde Origins of the U.S.-Jordanian Strategic Relationship
  • (Robert B. Satloff.)
  • The 1957 American-Syrian Crisis: Globalist Policy in a Regional Reality
  • (D. W. Lesch.)
  • U.S. Policy and Military Intervention in the 1958
  • Lebanon Crisis
  • (Erika Alin.)
  • The United States and Nasserist Pan-Arabism
  • (Malik
  • Mufti.)
  • War And Peace, War And
  • Peace
  • The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: U.S. Actions and Arab Perceptions
  • (Fawaz A. Gerges.)
  • Flawed Strategies and Missed Signals: Crisis Bargaining Between the Superpowers, October 1973
  • (Janice Gross Stein.)
  • The United States and Israel: The Nature of a Special Relationship
  • (Bernard Reich.)
  • The U.S.-PLO Relationship: From Dialogue to the White House Lawn
  • (JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz.)
  • The Specifics of the Meaning of Peace in the Middle East
  • (Mohamed Sid-Ahmed.)
  • The Gulf Crisis And War
  • Kuwait and the United States: The Reluctant Ally
  • and U.S. Policy Toward the Gulf
  • (Shafeeq Ghabra.)
  • From Over the Horizon to Into the Backyard: The U.S.-Saudi Relationship and the Gulf War
  • (F. Gregory Gause III.)
  • The Invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War: Dilemmas Facing the Israeli-Iraqi-U.S. Relationship
  • (Yair Evron.)
  • U.S. Input into Iraqi Decisionmaking, 19881990
  • (Amatzia Baram.)
  • The U.S.-GCC Relationship: Is It a Glass Leaking or a Glass Filling?
  • (John Duke Anthony.)
  • Retrospective
  • And Reassessment
  • The Soviet Union, the Gulf
  • War, and Its Aftermath: A Case Study in Limited Superpower Cooperation
  • (Robert O. Freedman.).

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