Scripting Middle East leaders : the impact of leadership perceptions on US and UK foreign policy
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Scripting Middle East leaders : the impact of leadership perceptions on US and UK foreign policy
Bloomsbury, 2013
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : strategies, stories and scripts / Lawrence Freedman
- Emotions and threat perception : new frontiers of research / Janice Gross Stein
- Leadership scripts and policy-making / Jeffrey H. Michaels
- Hitler on the Nile? : British and American perceptions of the Nasser regime, 1952-70 / Nigel Ashton
- Seeing Sadat, thinking Nasser : political and intelligence assessments of the transition / Dina Rezk
- Three images of the Ayatollah / David P. Houghton
- Skewed perceptions : Yasir Arafat in the eyes of American officials, 1969-2004 / William B. Quandt
- Saddam Hussein and US foreign policy : diabolical enemy images, policy failure, and the administrations of Bush senior and junior / Toby Dodge
- Anglo-American perceptions of Osama bin Laden after 9/11 / Peter R. Neumann and Fernande Van Tets
- Reliable enemy? : Bashar al-Asad and the United States / David W. Lesch
- Mubarak : the embodiment of "moderate Arab leadership"? / Rosemary Hollis
- British official perceptions of Muammar Gaddafi, 1969-2011 / Christopher Andrew
- The US and Iran : turning Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into a cipher / Scott Lucas
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Both the US and the UK seemed caught off-guard by the uprisings in Libya and Egypt and policymakers had to deal with leaders that switched from being allies to "pariahs."
This collection of essays, written by leading scholars, examines the evolution of British and American perceptions of "adversaries" in the Middle East since the Cold War. It traces the evolution of how leaders have been perceived, what determined such perceptions, and how they can change over time. It shows that in many cases the beliefs held by policymakers have influenced their policies and the way they adapted during crisis.
Each essay focuses on a Middle East leader, such as Nasser, Assad, Hussein, or Ahmadinejad, discussing what these leaders' objectives were perceived to be, the assessments of their willingness to take risks or negotiate, and how such assessments changed overtime and were evaluated in retrospect.
This groundbreaking contribution to the literature on leadership attitudes and perceptions in policymaking toward the Middle East will appeal to anyone studying foreign policy, Middle East politics and political psychology.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction (Lawrence Freedman and Jeffrey Michaels) 2. Strategic Scripts (Lawrence Freedman) 3. Emotion and Threat Perception: New Frontiers of Research (Janice Gross Stein) 4. Hitler on the Nile? British and American Perceptions of the Nasser Regime, 1952-70 (Nigel Ashton) 5. Seeing Sadat, Thinking Nasser (Dina Rezk) 6. Getting Khomeini Wrong - Perceptions and Misperceptions of Iran's Revolutionary Leadership (David Patrick Houghton) 7. Envisioning Arafat: Views from Washington from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush (William B. Quandt) 8. Waiting for the coup
- Oriental Despotism, Saddam Hussein and Anglo-American policy, 1990-2003 (Toby Dodge) 9. British Intelligence and Gaddafi (Christopher Andrew) 10. Western Views of Osama bin Laden (Peter R. Neumann) 11. Desperately Seeking Mahmoud: Misreadings of (and Beyond) Ahmadinejad (William Scott Lucas) 12. Mubarak: The Embodiment of 'Moderate Arab' Leadership (Rosemary Hollis) 13. Conclusion
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