Superpower Involvement in the Middle East: Dynamics of Foreign Policy

ISBN-13: 9780367289195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 301 str.

Paul Marantz; Blema Steinberg; John Sigler

Opis

This volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of Soviet and U.S. policy in the 1980s, highlighting explanatory variables that are likely to persist into the next decade. The text explores Soviet and U.S. policy in the Middle East by exploring how the superpowers define their goals in the region.

Spis treści

Westview Special Studies -- Preface -- The View from Moscow -- The Soviet View of the Utility of Force in the Third World -- Soviet Perspectives on Islam as a Third World Political Force -- Moscow's Perceptions of Recent American Involvement in the Middle East: Implications for Soviet Policy -- Moscow, Damascus, and the Lebanese Crisis of 1982–1984 -- Soviet Policy in the Middle East: The Crucial Change -- The View from Washington -- Oil as a Factor in U.S. Policy Toward the Middle East -- Faulty Assumptions, Failed Policy: The Arabists and the PLO During the First Reagan Administration -- American Perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Iranian-Iraqi War: The Need for a New Look -- Evaluating Reagan's Middle East Policy: A First Term Balance Sheet -- The Impact of the Great Powers -- The Great Powers and Conflict Transformation in the Arab-Israeli Dispute -- The Dynamics of Superpower Involvement in the Middle East: Retrospect and Prospect

O autorze

Paul Marantz