The Middle East and the United States
History, Politics, and Ideologies
5th Edition
August 2011
Trade Paperback · 560 Pages
$54.00 U.S. · $62.50 CAN · £35.99 U.K. · €38.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780813345291
Westview Press
Trade Paperback · 560 Pages
$54.00 U.S. · $62.50 CAN · £35.99 U.K. · €38.99 E.U.
ISBN 9780813345291
Westview Press
Recommended for These Courses
- Area Studies: Middle Eastern Studies
- History: Middle Eastern
- International Relations: General
- Middle East Studies: General
- Middle East Studies: Government and Politics
- Middle East Studies: History
- Political Science: General
- Political Science: International Relations
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The Middle East and the United States, Fifth Edition
Description
An Updated 2013 Edition, with an entirely new chapter on the Arab Spring and its aftermath, is now available!
The fifth edition of the acclaimed The Middle East and the United States brings together scholars and diplomats from the Middle East, Europe, and North America to provide an objective, cross-cultural assessment of U.S. policy toward the Middle East. This new edition has been substantially revised and updated into the Obama administration to explore such topics as: the 2003 Iraq War and why the U.S. decided to invade; Islamist perceptions of U.S. involvement in the Middle East; and the relationships between the U.S. and Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Afghanistan.
The Middle East and the United States, Fifth Edition, also features five entirely new chapters discussing the superpowers and the Middle East throughout the Cold War; the Bush and Obama administrations and the Arab-Israeli conflict; contemporary U.S.-Syrian relations; the importance of ideology to US-Iranian relations under the last three administrations; and U.S. relations with Al Qaeda. A reorganization of the contributions in the fifth edition also places greater emphasis on current events.
Carefully edited by regional experts David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas, The Middle East and the United States provides compellingly comprehensive and authoritative coverage of U.S. foreign policy and Middle East political history from World War One through the Cold War and Gulf Wars to the present.
The fifth edition of the acclaimed The Middle East and the United States brings together scholars and diplomats from the Middle East, Europe, and North America to provide an objective, cross-cultural assessment of U.S. policy toward the Middle East. This new edition has been substantially revised and updated into the Obama administration to explore such topics as: the 2003 Iraq War and why the U.S. decided to invade; Islamist perceptions of U.S. involvement in the Middle East; and the relationships between the U.S. and Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Afghanistan.
The Middle East and the United States, Fifth Edition, also features five entirely new chapters discussing the superpowers and the Middle East throughout the Cold War; the Bush and Obama administrations and the Arab-Israeli conflict; contemporary U.S.-Syrian relations; the importance of ideology to US-Iranian relations under the last three administrations; and U.S. relations with Al Qaeda. A reorganization of the contributions in the fifth edition also places greater emphasis on current events.
Carefully edited by regional experts David W. Lesch and Mark L. Haas, The Middle East and the United States provides compellingly comprehensive and authoritative coverage of U.S. foreign policy and Middle East political history from World War One through the Cold War and Gulf Wars to the present.
About the Authors
David W. Lesch is professor of Middle East history in the Department of History at Trinity University. Dr. Lesch is the author of several articles and books on the Middle East and the United States, including 1979: The Year That Shaped the Modern Middle East and The New Lion of Damascus.
Mark L. Haas is associate professor in the Political Science Department and the Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789–1989, in addition to numerous scholarly articles
Mark L. Haas is associate professor in the Political Science Department and the Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789–1989, in addition to numerous scholarly articles