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US foreign policy in the Middle East : from American missionaries to the Islamic State
Title
US foreign policy in the Middle East : from American missionaries to the Islamic State / edited by Geoffrey Gresh and Tugrul Keskin.
ISBN
9780815347149
0815347146
9781351169646
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Physical Description
xvii, 307 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
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.0This 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.
Variant and related titles
United States foreign policy in the Middle East
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 26, 2018
Series
Routledge studies in US foreign policy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: US foreign policy in the Middle East / Geoffrey F. Gresh
Part I. Historical cultural and economic interests
From "heathen Turks" to "cruel Turks": changing American perception and foreign policy towards the Middle East / Ozlem Madi-Sisman and Cengiz Sisman
How big tobacco used Islam and modernity to conquer Saudi Arabia / Sean Foley
Part II. Cold War challenges
How geography and ideology shaped US foreign policy during the Cold War / Nickolas A. Spencer
The ties that bind: postwar US foreign policy toward Turkey / Gökser Gökçay
American atomic policy and Hashemite Iraq, 1954-1958 / Elizabeth Bishop
Part III. Balancing regional alliances
Understanding the US-Israeli alliance / Jeremy Pressman
The United States' strategic relationship with Iran and Turkey: implications for Cold War and post-Cold War order / Suleyman Elik
American-Qatari partnership in the post-Gulf area: a mutually beneficial relationship / Fatma Asli Kelkitli
US-Gulf cooperation council relations in the age of the Obama Doctrine / Michael McCall
Part IV. Rapid political change and the spread of regional instability
When partisanship captured strategy: American foreign policy and the War in Iraq / Russell A. Burgos
The United States and political Islam: dealing with the Egyptian Muslim brothers in the Arab revolutions / Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
Promoting or resisting change? The United States and the Egyptian Uprising (2011-2012) / Ahmed Ali Salem
Set-up for failure: the Syria-United States relationship / Ethan Corbin
The United States and Iran: the view of the hardline conservatives in the Islamic Republic / Hamad Albloshi
Losing hearts and minds: the United States, ideocide, and the propaganda war against ISIS / Kelly Gleason
An imperial design or necessity of political economy?: understanding the underpinnings of a Trump administration / Tugrul Keskin.
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