The United States and the Middle East since 1914 : Troubled Realms

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 448 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780755656783

Full Description

What events and circumstances fuelled have driven America's fixation with the Middle East? In this book, Professor Salim Yaqub covers over 100 years of US involvement in and policy towards the Middle East to explain this vital geopolitical relationship.

Starting with the upheavals of World War I and the first stirrings of US geopolitical interest in the region, the book describes how and why the Middle East's location, resources, location, conflicts, and crises became key concerns for the United States. This Topics includes:

· The growing centrality of Middle Eastern oil to the global economy and to US military strategy
· The region's geographic location and US efforts to combat strategic adversaries like the Axis powers during WWII and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
· Israel's cultural and political significance to American society and government
· US efforts to combat aAnti-Western "rogue" states or terrorist groups using the region as a staging area for attacks and the US responseon the United States and its allies

Taking a chronological approach, the book explains how global upheavals and traumatic ruptures in the region shaped the trajectorydrove of US-Middle East relations over successive eras. Yaqub covers the impact of WWI, WWII, and decolonization, as well significantalong with key events such as the 1956 Suez Crisis, the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, aAl-Qa'ida's terrorist attacks of 2001, and the Hamas raid of October 7, 2023, and Israel's war in Gaza. Readers will better understand what motivated Washington's foreign policyinvolvement in the region and how it impacted that involvement shaped both the United States and the Middle East.

Pitched to university students and educated general readers, each chapter includes a timeline of relevant historical events, photographs, political cartoons, maps, and other graphics.

Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 — The Wilsonian Interlude, 1914-1920
Chapter 2 — Interwar Encounters, 1919-1940
Chapter 3 — War and Cold War in the Middle East, 1941-1952
Chapter 4 — The Nationalist Challenge, 1953-1961
Chapter 5 — Taking Sides, 1961-1969
Chapter 6 — Divided We Stand, 1969-1973
Chapter 7 — All Kissinger, All the Time, 1973-1976
Chapter 8 — Paved With Good Intentions, 1977-1981
Chapter 9 — Cold Wars, Hot Wars, 1981-1987
Chapter 10 — New World Order, 1987-1992
Chapter 11 — The Gathering Storm, 1993-2001
Chapter 12 — Terror and Turmoil, 2001-2009
Chapter 13 — No Easy Answers, 2009-2017
Chapter 14 — Diplomacy by Whim, 2017-2021
Chapter 15 — Things Fall Apart, 2021-2025
Epilogue— Epilogue