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Straight Power Concepts in the Middle East : US Foreign Policy, Israel and World History.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849645379
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Straight Power Concepts in the Middle EastDDC classification:
  • 327.73056
LOC classification:
  • JZ1480 -- .H374 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- PART 1: HISTORY AND CONTEXT -- 1 - FROM EMPIRE TONATION-STATE: THE GENESIS OF MODERNITY'S 500 YEARS -- THE WORLD-SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK -- LAND WORLD-EMPIRES -- ANCIENT ROME: REPUBLIC, EMPIRE -- WESTERN EUROPE AND THE MODERN INTERSTATE SYSTEM -- 2 - THE RISE OF AMERICAN POWER: FROM COLUMBUS TO THE COLD WAR -- INDEPENDENCE: "THE PROPER GUARDIANS OF THEPUBLIC WEAL" -- CONTINENTAL EXPANSION: "OUR PROPER DOMINION" -- GLOBALIZATION: "A CLEAR PREPONDERANCE OF INTEREST" -- PART 2: DOMINION AND SUPREMACY -- 3 - THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND ISRAEL: A SUMMARY -- FROM IMPERIAL TO PERIPHERAL -- THE MANDATE AND THE ARAB STATES -- PALESTINE AND THE JEWISH STATE -- 4 - THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL: THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP FROM TRUMAN TO REAGAN -- OIL AND DOMINOES: THE UNITED STATES ENTERS THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE ORIGIN OF US-ISRAELI RELATIONS, 1947-56 -- THE FORGING OF THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, 1957-67 -- CONSOLIDATION: NIXON-KISSINGER, 1969-74 -- DIPLOMACY, CRISIS, AND CONTINUITY: JIMMY CARTER, 1977-81 -- FORMALIZATION: RONALD REAGAN, 1981-89 -- CONCLUSION -- PART 3: DIPLOMACY AND INFLUENCE -- 5 - THE PEACE PROCESS: ANATOMY OF AN INJUSTICE -- PROLOGUE -- THE 1967 PHASE, 1967-78 -- INTERLUDE: THE REAGAN YEARS -- THE MADRID-OSLO PHASE, 1989-2001 -- CONCLUSION: THE POST-TABA PHASE, 2002-07 -- 6 - THE ISRAEL LOBBY: ANATOMY OF A CONTROVERSY -- THE LOBBY -- THE EARLY DEBATE -- MEARSHEIMER AND WALT -- THE CURRENT DEBATE: REACTION TO MEARSHEIMER AND WALT -- EVALUATION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Summary: A highly accessible introduction to the history of US foreign policy in the Middle East and why it remains deeply significant in the present day.
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COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- PART 1: HISTORY AND CONTEXT -- 1 - FROM EMPIRE TONATION-STATE: THE GENESIS OF MODERNITY'S 500 YEARS -- THE WORLD-SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK -- LAND WORLD-EMPIRES -- ANCIENT ROME: REPUBLIC, EMPIRE -- WESTERN EUROPE AND THE MODERN INTERSTATE SYSTEM -- 2 - THE RISE OF AMERICAN POWER: FROM COLUMBUS TO THE COLD WAR -- INDEPENDENCE: "THE PROPER GUARDIANS OF THEPUBLIC WEAL" -- CONTINENTAL EXPANSION: "OUR PROPER DOMINION" -- GLOBALIZATION: "A CLEAR PREPONDERANCE OF INTEREST" -- PART 2: DOMINION AND SUPREMACY -- 3 - THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND ISRAEL: A SUMMARY -- FROM IMPERIAL TO PERIPHERAL -- THE MANDATE AND THE ARAB STATES -- PALESTINE AND THE JEWISH STATE -- 4 - THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL: THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP FROM TRUMAN TO REAGAN -- OIL AND DOMINOES: THE UNITED STATES ENTERS THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE ORIGIN OF US-ISRAELI RELATIONS, 1947-56 -- THE FORGING OF THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, 1957-67 -- CONSOLIDATION: NIXON-KISSINGER, 1969-74 -- DIPLOMACY, CRISIS, AND CONTINUITY: JIMMY CARTER, 1977-81 -- FORMALIZATION: RONALD REAGAN, 1981-89 -- CONCLUSION -- PART 3: DIPLOMACY AND INFLUENCE -- 5 - THE PEACE PROCESS: ANATOMY OF AN INJUSTICE -- PROLOGUE -- THE 1967 PHASE, 1967-78 -- INTERLUDE: THE REAGAN YEARS -- THE MADRID-OSLO PHASE, 1989-2001 -- CONCLUSION: THE POST-TABA PHASE, 2002-07 -- 6 - THE ISRAEL LOBBY: ANATOMY OF A CONTROVERSY -- THE LOBBY -- THE EARLY DEBATE -- MEARSHEIMER AND WALT -- THE CURRENT DEBATE: REACTION TO MEARSHEIMER AND WALT -- EVALUATION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

A highly accessible introduction to the history of US foreign policy in the Middle East and why it remains deeply significant in the present day.

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