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

The Third Edition of this acclaimed survey brings together scholars and diplomats from the Middle East, Europe, and North America to provide an objective, cross-cultural assessment of US policy toward the Middle East. The Third Edition has been completely revised and updated. It includes entirely new chapters on US-Afghanistan relations from the Soviet invasion to Osama bin Laden, recent developments in US-Turkey relations, and the historic Baghdad Pact. More than ever,__The Middle East and the United States__provides compellingly comprehensive and authoritative coverage of US foreign policy and Middle East political history from World War I through the Cold War and Gulf War to the present. 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, 1952-1953 / 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, 1951-1953 : a contemporary diplomat's view / Sir Sam Falle National security concerns in U.S. policy toward Egypt, 1949-1956 / Peter Hahn The perils of ambiguity : the United States and the Baghdad pact / Elie Podeh The Jeykll-and-Hyde origins of the U.S.-Jordanian strategic relationship / Robert B. Satloff The 1957 American-Syrian crisis : globalist policy in a regional reality / David W. Lesch U.S. policy and military intervention in the 1958 Lebanon crisis / Erika Alin The United States and Nasserist Pan-Arabism / Malik Mufti 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 A. Digeorgio-Lutz The specifics of the meaning of peace in the Middle East / Mohamed Sid-Ahmed The United States in the Persian Gulf : from twin pillars to dual containment / Gary Sick Kuwait and the United States : the reluctant ally and U.S. policy toward the Gulf / Shafeeq Ghabra U.S. input into Iraqi decisionmaking, 1988-1990 / Amatzia Baram From "over the horizon" to "into the backyard" : the U.S.-Saudi relationship and the Gulf war / F. Gregory Gause III The Soviet Union, the Gulf war, and its aftermath : a case study in limited superpower cooperation / Robert O. Freedman The Soviet perception of the U.S. threat / Georgiy Mirsky The U.S.-GCC relationship : is it a glass leaking or a glass filling? / John Duke Anthony The push and pull of strategic cooperation : the U.S. relationship with Turkey in the Middle East / Henri J. Barkey The United States and Afghanistan : from marginality to global concern / Marvin Weinbaum New U.S. policies for a new Middle East? / William Quandt Islamist perceptions of U.S. policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad Americans and the Muslim World-First encounters / Robert J. Allison. The Third Edition of this acclaimed survey brings together scholars and diplomats from the Middle East, Europe, and North America to provide an objective, cross-cultural assessment of US policy toward the Middle East. The Third Edition has been completely revised and updated. It includes entirely new chapters on US-Afghanistan relations from the Soviet invasion to Osama bin Laden, recent developments in US-Turkey relations, and the historic Baghdad Pact. More than ever, The Middle East and the United States provides compellingly comprehensive and authoritative coverage of US foreign policy and Middle East political history from World War I through the Cold War and Gulf War to the present. 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. If, during the three-quarters of a century that have passed since these words were written, those who have chronicled the relations between the United States and the nations of the Middle East have had few, if any, opportunities to repeat our observer's findings, they can at least ago has been dissipated precisely because of U.S. intervention in the "great problems" engendered by the destruction of the Ottoman Empire. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, a U.S. observer in Syria wrote: Without visiting the Near east, it is not possible for an American to realize even faintly, the respect, faith and affection with which our Country is regarded throughout that region.