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United States and the Middle East:
A Search for New Perspectives
1993 The United States and the Middle East; A Search
for New Perspectives, editor and contributor. NY: State University of
New York Press, 497 pages. ISBN: 0-7914-1226-1
Table of Contents
Part
I: Introduction
1. The United States and the Middle East: A Search for New Perspectives
-Hooshang Amirahmadi
Part
II: US Middle East Policy in Historical Perspective
2. US Policy in the Middle East
-Richard Cottam
3. US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Tragedy of Persistence
-Richard Falk
Part
III: Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Palestinian Question
4. U.S. Policy Toward the Arab Israeli Conflict
-Naseer Aruri
5. US Policy and the Palestinian Question
-Joe Stork
Part
IV: Policy Toward the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Irangate Fiasco
6. U.S. Policy Toward the Islamic Republic of Iran: A Case of Misperception
and Reactive Behavior
-Mansour Farhang
7. Irangate: The Middle Eastern Connections
-Stuart Schaar
Part
V: US Strategic Policy Toward the Middle East and the Persian Gulf War
8. US Strategic Policy Toward the Middle East: Central Command and the
Reflagging of Kuwait's Tankers
-Elizabeth Gamlen
9. The Persian Gulf War: Myths and Realities
-Eric Davis
Part
VI: US Middle East Policy, Media, and Education on the Middle East
10. Media, Public Discourse, and US Policy toward the Middle East
-William A. Dorman
11. Middle East Studies and US Foreign Policy
-Richard B. Parker
12. Middle East Studies and Education in the United States: Retrospect
and Prospects
-Hooshang Amirahmadi, Eliane Condon, and Abraham Resnick
Part
VII: Conclusions
13. Global Restructuring, the Persian Gulf, War, and the US Quest for
World Leadership
-Hooshang Amirahmadi
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
The
Middle East has been the scene of several cataclysmic events in recent
years, including three wars since 1980: the eight-year Iran-Iraq war
(1980-1988), the Israeli invasion of Lebanon (1982), and the United
States-led war against Iraq (1991). These three wars not only inflicted
heavy damage on the economic infrastructures of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait,
and Lebanon, they also led to a significant increase in the U.S. involvement
in the region. In recognition of this later development, this book focuses
on U.S. policy in the Middle East.
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