US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: From American Missionaries to the Islamic State

ISBN-13: 9780815347149 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 308 str.

Geoffrey F. Gresh (National Defense Univ; Chin Tugrul Keskin (Shanghai University

Opis

The dawn of the Cold War marked a new stage of complex U.S. foreign policy involvement in the Middle East. More recently, globalization and the region's ongoing conflicts and political violence have led to the U.S. being more politically, economically, and militarily enmeshed - for better or worse-throughout the region. This book examines the emergence and development of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East from the early 1900s to the present. With contributions from some of the world's leading scholars, it takes a fresh, interdisciplinary, and insightful look into the many antecedents that led to current U.S. foreign policy. Exploring the historical challenges, regional alliances, rapid political change, economic interests, domestic politics, and other sources of regional instability, this volume comprises critical analysis from Iranian, Turkish, Israeli, American, and Arab perspectives to provide a comprehensive examination of the evolution and transformation of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East. This volume is an important resource for scholars and students working in the fields of Political Science, Sociology, International Relations, Islamic, Turkish, Iranian, Arab, and Israeli Studies.

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Introduction—US Foreign Policy in the Middle East PART I—Historical Cultural and Economic Interests 1. From ‘Heathen Turks’ to ‘Cruel Turks’: Changing American Perception and Foreign Policy towards the Middle East 2. How Big Tobacco Used Islam and Modernity to Conquer Saudi Arabia PART II—Cold War Challenges 3. How Geography and Ideology Shaped US Foreign Policy during the Cold War 4. The Ties That Bind: Postwar US Foreign Policy toward Turkey 5. American Atomic Policy and Hashemite Iraq, 1954-1958 PART III—Balancing Regional Alliances 6. Understanding the US-Israeli Alliance 7. The United States’ Strategic Relationship with Iran and Turkey: Implications for Cold War and Post-Cold War Order 8. American-Qatari Partnership in the Post-Gulf Area: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship 9. US-Gulf Cooperation Council Relations in the Age of the Obama Doctrine PART IV—Rapid Political Change and the Spread of Regional Instability 10. When Partisanship Captured Strategy: American Foreign Policy and the War in Iraq 11. The United States and Political Islam: Dealing with the Egyptian Muslim Brothers in the Arab Revolutions 12. Promoting or Resisting Change? The United States and the Egyptian Uprising (2011-2012) 13. Set-up for Failure: The Syria-United States Relationship 14. The United States and Iran: The View of the Hardline Conservatives in the Islamic Republic 15. Losing Hearts and Minds: The United States, Ideocide, and the Propaganda War Against ISIS 16. An Imperial Design or Necessity of Political Economy?: Understanding the Underpinnings of a Trump Administration