This study examines America's Middle East area specialists and their experience over three critical decades of foreign policy, aiming to understand how they were trained, what they learned, what was their foreign policy perspective, as well as to evaluate their influence. The book examines the post-1946 group and their role in the formulation and implementation of Middle East policy, and how this has shaped events in the relationship between American and the Middle East.
The book examines the worldview of these modern -Arabists- or Middle East hands. It also examines their...
This study examines America's Middle East area specialists and their experience over three critical decades of foreign policy, aiming to understand...